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Identity and the politics of scholarship in the study of religion / edited by José Ignacio Cabezón, Sheila Greeve Davaney. - New York : Routledge, 2004 - iv, 236 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Between identity and footnotes / Identity and the work of the scholar of religion / Religious identity and the study of Buddhism / Following in the footnotes of the Apostle Paul / Neither here nor there : crossing boundaries, becoming insiders, remaining Catholic / Religious identity, scholarship, and teaching religion / Balancing acts : negotiating the ethics of scholarship and identity / Post-Holocaust Jewish identity and the academy : on traveling the diaspora and the experience of the double standard / Being John Woodroffe : some mythical reflections on the postcolonial study of Hindu Tantra / Identity as an intellectual problem / Jose Ignacio Cabezon and Sheila Greeve Davaney -- Sheila Greeve Davaney -- Jose Ignacio Cabezon -- Francisca Cho -- Pamela Eisenbaum -- Francis X. Clooney -- Rita M. Gross -- Tazim R. Kassam -- Marc H. Ellis -- Jeffrey J. Kripal -- Kwasi Wiredu. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7. Ch. 8. Ch. 9. Ch. 10.

ISBN: 0415970652 (hb : alk. paper) 0415970660 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2004014174

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Religion--Study and teaching.

LC Class. No.: BL41 / .I34 2004

Dewey Class. No.: 200/.71