Includes bibliographical references and index.

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