Identity And The Politics Of Scholarship In The Study Of Religion

by Cabezon,Jose; Cabezon,Jose

• ISBN13: 9780415970655
• ISBN10: 0415970652
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-09-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The relationship of a scholar's identity to the scholarship he or she produces is a central concern in the academy and this volume is the first attempt to approach the special problems it presents for religious studies.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(24)
JOSÉ IGNACIO CABEZÓN and SHEILA GREEVE DAVANEY
Chapter 1 Between Identity and Footnotes	25	(18)
SHEILA GREEVE DAVANEY
Chapter 2 Identity and the Work of the Scholar of Religion	43	(18)
JOSÉ IGNACIO CABEZÓN
Chapter 3 Religious Identity and the Study of Buddhism	61	(16)
FRANCISCA CHO
Chapter 4 Following in the Footnotes of the Apostle Paul	77	(22)
PAMELA EISENBAUM
Chapter 5 Neither Here nor There: Crossing Boundaries, Becoming Insiders, Remaining Catholic	99	(14)
FRANCIS X. CLOONEY, S.J.
Chapter 6 Religious Identity, Scholarship, and Teaching Religion	113	(20)
RITA M. GROSS
Chapter 7 Balancing Acts: Negotiating the Ethics of Scholarship and Identity	133	(30)
TAZIM R. KASSAM
Chapter 8 Post-Holocaust Jewish Identity and the Academy: On Traveling the Diaspora and the Experience of the Double Standard	163	(20)
MARC H. ELLIS
Chapter 9 Being John Woodroffe: Some Mythical Reflections on the Postcolonial Study of Hindu Tantra	183	(26)
JEFFREY J. KRIPAL
Chapter 10 Identity as an Intellectual Problem	209	(20)
KWASI WIREDU
Contributors	229	(4)
Index	233