Preface Introduction: Contingency 1. Critique 2. Things 3. Discourse 4. Domination 5. Ideology 6. Recrement 7. Case Study: Racist Ideology in the US Coda Bibliography Index
Provides a theory of discourse and ideology that could be used to study religion as well as other aspects of culture, including race and gender.
Craig Martin is Professor of Religious Studies at St. Thomas Aquinas College, USA. He is the author of Capitalizing Religion: Ideology and the Opiate of the Bourgeoisie (Bloomsbury, 2014) and co-editor of Stereotyping Religion: Critiquing Clichés (Bloomsbury, 2017). He is the series editor for Critiquing Religion: Discourse, Culture, Power.
This book is a gift to students and colleagues who have a passion
for theory. Craig Martin has infused his work with rare wit,
wisdom, emotion, unique insight, and commitment.
*Naomi Goldenberg, Professor of Religious Studies, University of
Ottawa, Canada*
In this incredibly impressive work, Craig Martin shows the
importance of doing your homework by methodically laying out the
philosophical basis for a discursive theory of society. Martin
provides a clear path through numerous debates that
over-simplistically pit empirical realities against social
construction, leading the reader to a far more nuanced and
critically viable position. This is a must-read for anyone who
considers themselves a scholar of culture.
*Leslie Dorrough Smith, Associate Professor of Religious Studies
and Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, Avila
University, USA*
“If to study religion is to study how people name and rank their
worlds, then it actually studies how power and identity are claimed
and contested—and Craig Martin numbers among the best
representatives of such a field; Discourse and Ideology makes clear
that a critical scholar of religion has much to say about how
society works, and why it so often seems to work only for some of
its members.”
*Russell T. McCutcheon, University Research Professor and Chair of
the Department of Religious Studies, University of Alabama,
USA*
This book succeeds in providing a secure base and guide for
scholars to apply a poststructuralist critique of culture, whether
focused on religion, politics, gender, race or another category of
analysis.
*Suzanne Owen, Reader in Religious Studies, Leeds Trinity
University, UK*
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