Russell T. McCutcheon

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According to Wikipedia, Russell Tracey McCutcheon is a Canadian religion scholar who earned a PhD in religious studies from the University of Toronto in 1995. Biography McCutcheon is a professor in the department of religious studies at the University of Alabama, and was department chair from 2001 to 2009. He was an editor of the quarterly periodical Method & Theory in the Study of Religion from 1997 to 2001. In 2005, McCutcheon was elected President of the Council of Societies for the Study of Religion, headquartered at Rice University. He is the founder and series editor for the anthology series, Critical Categories in the Study of Religion.

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Manufacturing Religion: The Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia (1997) (483)
Guide to the Study of Religion (2000) (240)
Critics Not Caretakers: Redescribing the Public Study of Religion (2001) (137)
The Discipline of Religion: Structure, Meaning, Rhetoric (2003) (81)
The Insider/Outsider Problem in the Study of Religion: A Reader (1999) (75)
The Sacred Is the Profane: The Political Nature of "Religion" (2012) (68)
“They Licked the Platter Clean”: On the Co-Dependency of the Religious and The Secular (2007) (42)
The ideology of closure and the problem with the insider/ outsider problem in the study of religion (2003) (36)
The Category “Religion” in Recent Publications: A Critical Survey (1995) (33)
A Default of Critical Intelligence ? The Scholar of Religion as Public Intellectual' (1997) (31)
"It's a Lie. There's No Truth in It! It's a Sin!": On the Limits of the Humanistic Study of Religion and the Costs of Saving Others from Themselves (2006) (28)
Sect (2017) (26)
Studying Religion : An Introduction (2018) (21)
Will Your Cognitive Anchor Hold in the Storms of Culture (2010) (19)
Words, Words, Words (2007) (19)
Critics Not Caretakers (2001) (18)
Animism (2021) (17)
Religion, Ire, and Dangerous Things (2004) (16)
The Category “Religion” in Recent Publications: Twenty Years Later (2015) (15)
"My theory of the brontosaurus": Postmodernism and "theory" of religion (1997) (14)
The Essence of Phenomenology and Its Meaning for the Scientific Study of Religion@@@Explaining and Interpreting Religion: Essays on the Issue@@@Religion in Relation: Method, Application, and Moral Location (1991) (13)
Religion and the Domestication of Dissent: Or, How to Live in a Less Than Perfect Nation (2014) (13)
Religious transformations and socio-political change : Eastern Europe and Latin America (1993) (12)
A Modest Proposal on Method: Essaying the Study of Religion (2014) (11)
Religious Experience: A Reader (2014) (11)
Redescribing “Religion” as Social Formation: Toward a Social Theory of Religion (1998) (11)
Fabricating Religion (2018) (10)
A Modest Proposal on Method (2018) (10)
Religious literacy (2021) (9)
Introducing Religion: Essays in Honor of Jonathan Z.Smith (2014) (9)
The jargon of authenticity and the study of religion (2001) (9)
Cult (2021) (9)
A Direct Question Deserves a Direct Answer: A Response to Atalia Omer's “Can a Critic Be a Caretaker too?” (2012) (8)
The Role of Method and Theory in the Iahr1 (2000) (8)
THE CATEGORY “RELIGION” AND THE POLITICS OF TOLERANCE (2003) (7)
Failure and nerve in the academic study of religion : essays in honor of Donald Wiebe (2012) (7)
Affinities, Benefits, and Costs: The Abcs of Good Scholars Gone Public (2005) (6)
On the Myth of Disenchantment* (2018) (6)
Primitive (2021) (6)
Paganism (2021) (6)
Redescribing “Religion and …” Film: Teaching the Insider/Outsider Problem (1998) (6)
‘Just follow the money’: the cold war, the humanistic study of religion, and the fallacy of insufficient cynicism (2004) (6)
RELIGION/S BETWEEN COVERS: DILEMMAS OF THE WORLD RELIGIONS TEXTBOOK (2005) (5)
A brief response from a fortunate man (2000) (5)
Methods, theories, and the terrors of history (2003) (5)
Critical Thinking Begins at Home: On Making a Shift in the Study of Religion (2020) (5)
Writing Religion: The Case for the Critical Study of Religion (2015) (5)
"Religion" and the Problem of the Governable Self; or How to Live in a Less than Perfect Nation (2004) (4)
A Tale of Nouns and Verbs: Rejoinder to Ann Taves (2012) (4)
"The Common Ground On Which Students of Religion Meet": Methodology and Theory Within the IAHR (2015) (4)
Keeping “critical” critical: A conversation from Culture on the Edge (2014) (4)
Failure and Nerve in the Academic Study of Religion: Everything Old Is New Again (2014) (4)
Returning the volley to William E. Arnal (1998) (4)
I Have a Hunch 1 (2012) (4)
Discourse Analysis as an Anthropology of the Mundane: An Interview (2020) (3)
On Making a Shift in the Study of Religion and Other Essays (2021) (3)
A symposium on Rodney Stark's "The rise of Christianity" (1999) (3)
Perspectives on method and theory in the study of religion : adjunct proceedings of the XVIIth Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Mexico City, 1995 (2000) (3)
Recognizing the Non-religious: Reimagining the Secular (2019) (3)
Taming Ethnocentrism and Trans-Cultural Understandings1 (2000) (3)
Circling the Wagons: The Problem with the Insider/Outsider in the Comparative Study of Religion (2006) (3)
The State of Islamic Studies in the Study of Religion: An Introduction (2012) (3)
A Response to Courtright (2006) (3)
A Gift with Diminished Returns (2008) (3)
Talking Past Each Other—Public Intellectuals Revisited: Rejoinder to Paul J. Griffiths and June O'Connor (1998) (2)
Filling in the Cracks with Resin: A Response to John Burris' "text and Context in the Study of Religion" (2003) (2)
Relating Smith* (2006) (2)
Identifying the meaning and end of scholarship: what’s at stake in Muslim Identities* (2017) (2)
Book Review:Savage Systems: Colonialism and Comparative Religion in Southern Africa David Chidester (1999) (2)
Introduction: On the Persistence of Imagining Religion (2012) (2)
Dispatches from the “Religion” Wars (2004) (2)
INTRODUCTION: RICHARD KING'S ORIENTALISM AND RELIGION (2002) (2)
The essentials of religion (2007) (2)
Naming the Unnameable? Theological Language and the Academic Study of Religion (1990) (2)
Entanglements: Marking Place in the Field of Religion (2014) (2)
Justice, That Fraught Idea: A Response to “The Normal and Abnormal” (2017) (2)
Authority: Construction and Corrosion (2000) (2)
Theorizing “Religion”: Rejoinder to Robert A. Segal (2005) (2)
Africa on Our Minds (2007) (2)
Transport research : quo vadis ? (2008) (2)
Religion in 50 Words (2021) (2)
The perfect past and the jargon of authenticity: Bruce Lincoln's (2001) (2)
The functions of religion (2018) (2)
Understanding Religion: Theories and Methods for Studying Religiously Diverse Societies (2021) (2)
Ideology and the Problem of Naming: a Reply (1991) (2)
Studying Religion (2018) (1)
Beyond Cynicism: A Sampling of Current Work in the Swiss Study of Religion (2017) (1)
Review symposium on Jeremy Carrette's Foucault and Religion and Religion and Culture (2001) (1)
Introduction: A Response to Donald Wiebe from an East-Going Zax (2015) (1)
Methods and Theories in the Classroom: Teaching the Study of Myths and Rituals (1998) (1)
Orthodoxies in the Field of Production (2015) (1)
Introduction: Plus ça change… (2015) (1)
A Response to Robert Ford Campany’s “Chinese History and its Implications for Writing ‘Religion(s)’” (2012) (1)
Maps of Nothing in Particular: Religion as a Cross-cultural Taxon (2012) (1)
Response: What Happens After the Deconstruction (2018) (1)
Secular (2021) (1)
The crisis of academic labour and the myth of autonomy: Dispatch from the job wars (1998) (1)
Of straw men and humanists : A reply to Bryan Rennie (1999) (1)
12. The Resiliency of Conceptual Anachronisms: On the Limits of ‘the West’ and ‘Religion' (2015) (1)
“Man is the Measure of All Things…”: On The Fabrication of Oriental Religions by European History of Religions (2017) (1)
Reframing the Masters of Suspicion: Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud (2019) (1)
Words, Words, Wordbooks, or Everything Old Is New Again (2012) (1)
Myth, Rhetoric, and the Voice of Authority: A Critique of Frazer, Eliot, Frye, and Campbell by Marc Manganaro (review) (2014) (1)
The economics of spiritual luxury: The glittering lobby and the parliament of religions (1998) (1)
Practice (2021) (0)
Faith (2021) (0)
Classification (2021) (0)
Introduction (2021) (0)
Contributors / Collaborateurs (2011) (0)
Introduction: It Could be Different: Reinventing the Study of Religion in Alabama (2015) (0)
What Is Religion? (2019) (0)
Studying Religion: Dedication (2007) (0)
Ideology (2021) (0)
Sacrifice (2020) (0)
Book reviews (2000) (0)
Law (2021) (0)
Afterword: On utility and limits (2016) (0)
Society (2009) (0)
Contemporary Reinventions of Religion: Disney and the Academy (2012) (0)
Pilgrimage (2021) (0)
History (2021) (0)
Methods, theories, and the terrors of history : Closing the Eliadean era with some dignity (2003) (0)
FORGING THE LINKS BETWEEN HISTORICAL RESEARCH AND THE POLICY PROCESS (2016) (0)
Like small bumps on the back of the neck (2003) (0)
In Lieu of Conclusion (2014) (0)
Origin (2021) (0)
Diaspora (2021) (0)
Authenticity (2021) (0)
Lived religion (2021) (0)
Critical (2021) (0)
The resemblances among religions (2018) (0)
Studying Religion: Frontmatter (2007) (0)
“Religion” and the citizen’s unrequited desires (2003) (0)
What’s in a name? (2018) (0)
Phenomenology (2021) (0)
Religious Literary and Our Pre-Critical Past (2020) (0)
Myth (2021) (0)
Introduction: I Have a Hunch (2015) (0)
Introduction: Introducing Smith (2015) (0)
The public discourse on religion (2018) (0)
Autonomy, unity, and crisis (2003) (0)
Text (2021) (0)
Politics (2021) (0)
Socio-Political Dimensions in Civil Engineering Education At the University of the Witwatersrand (1991) (0)
Method (1962) (0)
The Origins of Christianity Within, and Without, “Religion”: A Case Study (2012) (0)
Immanence/Transcendence (2021) (0)
I Have a Hunch1 (2012) (0)
Religion in American History (Hon) REL 245 ● Fall 2015 (2015) (0)
Learning to Code: Digital Pebbles and Institutional Ripples (2021) (0)
Interpretation (2021) (0)
Classification and the dog’s breakfast : The American Academy of Religion’s research interest survey (2003) (0)
Studying Religion: Scholars (2007) (0)
God’s people defending their ivory towers: reassessing the study of religion’s emergence in the U.S : Reassessing the study of religion’s emergence in the U.S. (2003) (0)
Religion and the insider/outsider problem (2007) (0)
Explanation (2021) (0)
The perfect past and the irony of narrative (2003) (0)
Affect (2021) (0)
Prayer (2018) (0)
Comptes rendus / Reviews of books: Atheism from the Reformation to the Enlightenment Michael Hunter and David Wooton, editors Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. 307 p (1995) (0)
The domestication of dissent : Pundits' contributions to the war on terrorism (2005) (0)
Alienation, apprenticeship, and the crisis of academic labor (2003) (0)
Comparison (2021) (0)
Race (2021) (0)
Introduction (2018) (0)
Obituary (2018) (0)
Function (2021) (0)
World religions (2021) (0)
GOVERNABLE SELF; OR HOW TO LIVE IN A LESS THAN PERFECT NATION1 (2016) (0)
Redescription (2021) (0)
The perfect past and the irony of narrative : Bruce Lincoln’s Theorizing Myth (2003) (0)
Sacred/profane (2021) (0)
Identity (2021) (0)
Studying Religion: Religion and Classification (2007) (0)
Book Review: Reinventing Religious Studies: Key Writings in the History of a Discipline, edited by Scott S. Elliott (2014) (0)
Introduction: “Why Do You Seek the Living Among the Dead?” (Luke 24: 5) (2015) (0)
Cognition (1999) (0)
Classification and the dog’s breakfast (2003) (0)
The Problem of Religion and the Lust for Dogmatic Rule (2006) (0)
Gary Lease (1940-2008) (2009) (0)
Clarifications: A Rejoinder (2015) (0)
Gender (2021) (0)
Orthodoxy (2021) (0)
Forum: Crafting the Introductory Course in Religious Studies (2016) (0)
The history of ‘religion’ (2007) (0)
Syncretism (2021) (0)
Bruce Lincoln Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars: Critical Explorations in the History of Religions (2013) (0)
Introduction (2021) (0)
“Religion” and the governable self (2003) (0)
Atheism/Theism (2021) (0)
Book Review:The Politics of Myth: A Study of C. G. Jung, Mircea Eliade, and Joseph Campbell Robert Ellwood (2001) (0)
A Question (Still) Worth Asking about The Religions of Man (2018) (0)
On the Definition of Religion (2012) (0)
Magic (2021) (0)
Belief (2021) (0)
Obituary: A Life and Career: Jonathan Z. Smith (1938–2017) (2018) (0)
The Theodicy of Alfred North Whitehead: A Logical and Ethical Vindication (1993) (0)
Meditation (2021) (0)
Religion in 50 More Words: A Redescriptive Vocabulary (2021) (0)
Religion in 50 Words: A Critical Vocabulary (2021) (0)
Redescribing Our Primary Expertise Or, In Praise of Promiscuous Curiosities (2023) (0)
The Job Market in the Academy (2020) (0)
Introduction: “And That’s Why No One Takes the Humanities Seriously” (2015) (0)
God’s people defending their ivory towers (2003) (0)
Form, content, and the treasury of devices (2003) (0)
“As it Was in the Beginning…”: The Modern Problem of the Ancient Self (2010) (0)
Theory (2021) (0)
Ritual (2021) (0)
Introduction: How to Give Up the Bible, and Learn to Love It Again (2015) (0)
Power (2021) (0)
Introduction : What is the study of religion? (2007) (0)
Fundamentalism (2021) (0)
Historicizing the Elephant in the Room (2018) (0)
Reformation (2021) (0)
Tradition (2021) (0)
Material religion (2021) (0)
Experience (2021) (0)
Description (2021) (0)
Essence (2021) (0)
The Study of Religion in a New Key: Theoretical and Philosophical Soundings in the Comparative and General Study of Religion. By Jeppe Sinding Jensen. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2003. Pp. 509. $53.00. (2008) (0)
Indigeneity (2021) (0)
Imagine No Religion: How Modern Abstractions Hide Ancient Realities. By Carlin A. Barton and Daniel Boyarin. New York: Fordham University Press, 2016. Pp. viii+309. $125.00 (cloth). (2018) (0)
Church (2021) (0)
Religion and classification (2018) (0)
Priest/Prophet (2021) (0)
Canon (2021) (0)
"Religion" in Theory and Practice: Demystifying the Field for Burgeoning Academics (2018) (0)
Introduction: An Experiment in Redescription (2018) (0)
Letters: Religion and the Academy (1997) (0)
Religion (2021) (0)
Dialogue (1975) (0)
Strategies for Surviving Dissolution: Working with Gary Lease in the Academic Study of Religion (2009) (0)
“The Field, at the Moment, Is Up for Redefinition”: Twenty Five Years of Manufacturing Religion (2022) (0)
Introduction: A Modest Proposal on Method (2015) (0)
Authority (2021) (0)
Methodological agnosticism (2021) (0)
Worldview (2021) (0)
William James “Lecture 2: Circumscription of the Topic,” from The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (2014) (0)
Status (2021) (0)
Afterlife (2019) (0)
Introduction (2018) (0)
Environment (2021) (0)
THEORIZING ORIGINS: AN ANALYSIS OF DESCRIPTIONS OF HYBRIDITY IN MARIAN DEVOTIONAL CULTURES by SIERRA (2019) (0)
Pluralism (2021) (0)

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