Stereotyping Religion: Critiquing Clichés

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 “Religions are belief systems” -- The problems with belief -- The problem with “religions are belief systems”: The case of American religions -- Conclusion --...

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Main Author: Stoddard, Brad (Author)
Contributors: Martin, Craig (Other)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: London Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 2017
In:Year: 2017
Series/Journal:Critiquing Religion: Discourse, Culture, Power Ser
Further subjects:B Religion
B Electronic books
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Parallel Edition:Print version: Stoddard, Brad: Stereotyping Religion : Critiquing Clichés. - London : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC,c2017. - 9781474292191
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Summary:Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 “Religions are belief systems” -- The problems with belief -- The problem with “religions are belief systems”: The case of American religions -- Conclusion -- 2 “Religions are intrinsically violent” -- Some brief historical background -- Religions are intrinsically peaceful clichés -- Some examples of the cliché in popular culture -- Conclusion -- 3 “Religion makes people moral” -- What is morality? What is religion? -- Gods, morality, and cognitive evolution -- Modes of religiosity -- Behaving badly with God on your side -- Big gods and surveillance -- Conclusion -- 4 “Religion concerns the transcendent” -- Otto and Eliade: Manufacturers of “the sacred” -- Scholars and the sacred -- The sacred is everywhere: Modern uses of the sacred concept -- 5 “Religion is a private matter” -- Clarifying this cliché -- A caveat -- The history behind the cliché -- Religion as “private” in the study of religion -- Historicizing the present -- 6 “Religions are mutually exclusive” -- The unstated cliché -- Development of the cliché -- The power of the cliché -- 7 “I’m spiritual but not religious” -- Making meaning -- Situated meaning -- Not Taking Meaning for Granted -- Applications to claims of being “spiritual but not religious” -- 8 “Learning about religion leads to tolerance” -- Christian ecumenical origins -- Modern developments -- Popular success and critique -- Conclusion -- 9 “Everyone has a faith” -- Hidden assumptions of the cliché -- Inventing “faith” as human nature -- James Fowler and the Stages of Faith -- The stereotype in American popular culture -- Conclusion: The power of cliché in everyday life -- 10 “Religion is bullshit”
Social contexts: Bullshiters and bullshitees -- Modality one—skepticism: Religion is bullshit because it is “false” -- Modality two – dissent and disdain: Religion is bullshit because it is “morally wrong” -- Modality three – despair: Religion is bullshit because it is “terrible” -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Index
ISBN:1474292216