44. Foucault and the Study of Religion

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xiii
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. 1. The Copernican Turn in the Study of Religion 1
6. Part I. Historical Foundations/Genealogies
7. 2. Nominalist “Judaism” and the Late-Ancient Invention of Religion 23
8. 3. Bible/Religion/Critique 41
9. 4. Hegel: On Secularity and the Religion-Making Machine 57
10. 5. Friedrich Max Müller and the Science of Religion 69
11. 6. Classic Comparative Theology and the Study of Religion 77
12. 7. Religion, Religious Studies, and Shinto in Modern Japan 87
13. PART II. The Enlightenment Critique of Religion
14. 8. David Hume on Religion 97
15. 9. Feuerbach on Religion 105
16. 10. Nietzsche: Life, Works, Reception 113
17. 11. Sigmund Freud on Religion 121
18. 12. Karl Marx on Religion 127
19. 13. “Religion” in the Writings of the New Atheists 135
20. PART III. Religion Beyond the West
21. 14. Indigenous African Traditions as Models for Theorizing Religion 147
22. 15. Zongjiao and the Category of Religion in China 155
23. 16. Islamic Dīn as an Alternative to Western Models of “Religion” 163
24. 17. Translation 173
25. PA RT IV. Religion as Experience
26. 18. The Psychology of Religion 189
27. 19. William James and the Study of Religion: A Critical Reading 203
28. 20. Rudolf Otto and the Idea of the Holy 213
29. 21. Jung on Religion 221
30. 22. Religion and the Brain: Cognitive Science as a Basis for Theories of Religion 229
31. 23. A Critical Response to Cognitivist Theories of Religion 237
32. PART V. Religion, Language, and Myth
33. 24. “Religion” in Anglo-American (Analytical) Philosophy of Religion 249
34. 25. Structuralist Linguistics and Structuralist Theories of Religion 261
35. 26. Imagining, Manufacturing, and Theorizing Myth: An Overview of Key Theories of Myth and Religion 269
36. PART VI. Religion/Society/Culture
37. 27. The Origins of the Sociology of Religion: The Problem of “Religion” and “Religions” in Classical Sociology 283
38. 28. Contemporary Social Theory and Religion: The Misconstrual of Religion in Theories of “Second” Modernity 297
39. 29. Classical Anthropological Theories of Religion 315
40. 30. Defining Religion 327
41. 31. Religion, Media, and Cultural Studies 335
42. PART VII. Religion, Ritual, and Action
43. 32. Classic Ritual Theories 351
44. 33. The Myth-Ritual Debate 367
45. 34. From Ritual to Ritualization 377
46. 35. Religion and Theories of Action 385
47. PART VIII. The Phenomenology of Religion and Its Critics
48. 36. Phenomenology of Religion: The Philosophical Background 395
49. 37. The Phenomenology of Religion 401
50. 38. Mircea Eliade 413
51. 39. Critical Responses to Phenomenological Theories of Religion 421
52. 40. Critical Religion: “Religion” Is Not a Stand-Alone Category 435
53. PART IX. Religion and Contemporary European Thought
54. 41. Post-Marxism and Religion 457
55. 42. Pierre Bourdieu on Religion 471
56. 43. Jacques Derrida on Religion 481
57. 44. Foucault and the Study of Religion 487
58. 45. Contemporary Continental Philosophy and the “Return of the Religious” 497
59. PART X. Religion, Gender, and Sexuality
60. 46. Feminist Approaches to the Study of Religion 509
61. 47. French Feminism and Religion 523
62. 48. Queer Theory Meets Critical Religion: Are We Starting to Think Yet? 531
63. PART XI. Religion, Coloniality, and Race
64. 49. Religion, Modernity, and Coloniality 547
65. 50. Apartheid Comparative Religion in South Africa 555
66. 51. Theorizing Race and Religion: Du Bois, Cox, and Fanon 563
67. 52. Black Cultural Criticism, the New Politics of Diff erence, and Religious Criticism 573
68. 53. Theorizing Black Religious Studies: A Genealogy 579
69. PART XII. Religion/Nation/Globalization
70. 54. Religion and Violence 589
71. 55. Religion and Economy 601
72. 56. Globalization and Religion 613
73. Contributors 627
74. Index 637