Identity and the Politics of Scholarship in the Study of Religion

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• I. - Introduction 1
• 1 - Between Identity and Footnotes 25
• 2 - Identity and the Work of the Scholar of Religion 43
• 3 - Religious Identity and the Study of Buddhism 61
• 4 - Following in the Footnotes of the Apostle Paul 77
• 5 - Neither Here nor There: Crossing Boundaries, Becoming Insiders, Remaining Catholic 99
• 6 - Religious Identity, Scholarship, and Teaching Religion 113
• 7 - Balancing Acts: Negotiating the Ethics of Scholarship and Identity 133
• 8 - Post-Holocaust Jewish Identity and the Academy: on Traveling the Diaspora and the Experience of the Double Standard 163
• 9 - Being John Woodroffe: Some Mythical Reflections on the Postcolonial Study of Hindu Tantra 183
• 10 - Identity as an Intellectual Problem 209
• Index 233