Critics Not Caretakers: Redescribing the Public Study of Religion

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IN D EX adhocery, 163, 166, 185, 195, 197, 214n.2,239 aestheticization of the political, 134 agency and structure, 27-28 agnosticism, 131 Albanese, Catherine, 26,128, 236n. 4 Allah,48,49,52,53,54,163 Allen, Charlotte, 3, 16, 17, 18n. 2 Allen, Woody, 237 Althusser, Louis, 25, 28, 170 Alton, Bruce, 146 American Academy of Religion (AAR), ix, xiv, xix, 3, 12, 16, 20n. 14,37n. 1, 130, 143n.2, 146, 151, 180,228 ambiguity of membership, 150-51 presidential addresses of, 130, 143n.2 Ancient Myths and Modern Theories of Christian Origins Seminar, 35, 39n.9 Anderson, Benedict, 32, 176n. 6 Anthropology, 77, 119, 132, 190, 203,207,209,212 of credibility, 166, 173, 175 anthropomorphism, 51-52 Antonioni, Michelangelo, 193 Apocalypse Now, 187 Applewhite, Marshal, 45 Arnal, William, xvii, 33, 121n. 10, 149, 159 Armstrong, Karen, xiii, 43 ff., 76, 88 Asad, Talal, 140,205 authenticity, 133 authority, 139, 147 Avaloll, 186 Aztec religion, 234 Bainbridge, William, 107, 111, 118 Bakker, Jim, 46 Baranowski, Ann, 197n. 4, 199n. 13 Barth, Karl, 104 ff., 128,220 Barthes, Roland, xi, 9, 31, 33, 133, 202-3,205,209 Becker, Gay, 23 Bell, Catherine, 113,204,205, 209 Bell, Diane, 209 Benavides, Gustavo, 182 Berger, Peter, 38n. 4 Berling, Judith, 130 Bianchi, Ugo, 231 Biblical literalism, 51 blis~89,97,99, lOOn. 8 as commodity, 97 Bloch, Maurice, 126 Blow Out, 194-97, 199n. 14 Blow Up, 193-97 Blues Traveler, 210-11 Bolle, Kees, 201, 203, 205 Bourdieu, Pierre, 15, 166 Boyer, Pascal, ?In. 2, 107, 118, 136, 207 Brahman, 49,52,53 Braun, Willi, xiv, xix, 24, 28, 29, 30, 39n. 9, 39n. 10,41, 71n. 2, 198n. 11, 236n. 3, 240 Brown, Karen McCarthy, 159, 175n. 2,175n.3 Brown, Peter, 163 Buber, Martin, 116 Buddhism, 52, 212, 221, 223, 226, 234 Thanks to Ryan Garrett for his assistance in preparing this index. 257 258 CRITICS NOT CARETAKERS Bultmann, Rudolf, 208 Burkert, Walter, xii, 25, 57 ff., 107, 118, 127,207,209 Bush, George H. W., 50 Bush, George W., 71n. 4 Cady, Linell, 125, 152n. 4 Cameron, Ron, xv n. 1, xvii, 1, 3, 14, 17n.l Campbell, Joseph, 43, 46, lOOn. 8, 128, 143n. 1, 184, 188,206; see bliss Campo, Juan, 236n. 6 Camus, Albert, 204 Cannon, Dale, 226 capitalism, 51, 89, 94, 161 capitalism/religion dichotomy, 91, 94 Capps, Walter, 218, 236n. 1 caretakers, 17, 74, 99, 166 as ideological managers, 142 Carter, Jeffrey, 22, 121n. 6 Carter, Stephen, 125, 126, 131 Cassirer, Ernst, 208 Certeau, Michel de, 166, 173; see anthropology of credibility charisma, 66, 69 Chidester, David, 19n. 12, 236n. 2 Chinese religion, 212, 234 Chomsky, Noam, xiii, 134-35, 136, 143n.6, 146, 166, 204, 214n.4 Christianity, 43, 49, 51, 53,107,131, 212,221,226,234 Christians, 36, 49, 50, 76 Christian origins, study of, 24-25, 35-36 circular logic,S civil religion, 50, 220; see also nationalism Clinton, William]., 173 Coca-Cola Company, 95 Cole, Tim, 167 Collins, Randall, 39n. 10 commodification of religion, 182; see bliss as commodity common sense, 96 commullitas, 68 comparative categories, 62-63ff Comparative Religion, 86, 126 comparison, 44, 47, 57, 136, 156, 158,180,213,225-31 classroom assignment, 230 inevitability of, 228 theory of, 63 Comstock, Gary, 225 concision, 70, 166; see also sound bites Confucianism, 213, 223 consumerism, 89 Coppola, Francis Ford, 194 Codrescu, Adrei, 70; see zombification couch potato scholarship, xv, 12; see phenomenology Cousills, 198n. 9 cultural dialogue, 80; see religious pluralism culture, 137, 173 autonomy of, 59 Cumpsty, John, 97, lOOn. 7 customer service model, 66 Darwin, Charles, 58 Dean, William, 125, 136-37 DeConcini, Barbara, 13, 17 deduction, 58, 86, 87; see induction definition by example, 66, 104 Delaney, Carol, 176n. 12 demarcation, 104, 115,120, 120n. 1 democracy, 138 Dennett, Daniel, 71 n. 2 Denny, Fred, 169 DePalma, Brian, 194 Derrida, Jacques, 107 description, 6, 17, 22, 23, 47, 54, 65, 131,133,136,149,158,188, 213,221 Detienne, Marcel, 204 dharma, 219 discourses as distinguishable, 107 Disney World, 100 doctrine, study of, 147 domestication, 80, 81 Doniger, Wendy, 203,208 Dory, William, 204 Douglas, Mary, 204, 208, 209, 235 Dumezil, Georges, 208 Dundes, Alan, 206 Durkheim, Emile, 21, 31, 32, 33, 103, 105,111,113,118, 120n. 3, 121n.4, 129, 148, 189,204,209, 220,232,235 Eagleton, Terry, 33, 60, 106, 113, 114,132, 143n...