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Focusing on the academic study of religion, Claiming Identity in the Study of Religion is the first in a series that grapples with the historicity of identity and the social and rhetorical techniques that make claims to identity possible.
In this volume, six previously published essays by scholar of religion Russell T. McCutcheon are each coupled with a new substantive commentary by North American contributors. McCutcheon's essays highlight different identifying claims within the work of a number of leading scholars of religion. The companion contributions analyze the strategies of identification employed by the scholars whom McCutcheon discusses. Monica R. Miller provides an introduction to the volume and Steven W. Ramey provides a concluding essay. The strategies of identification highlighted and exposed in this text are further explored in the second volume in the series, The Problem of Nostalgia in the Study of Identity through a set of detailed ethnographic and historical studies that press novel ways of studying identity as an always active and ongoing process of signification.
About the author
Robin Miller [R#3] was born in Bethlehem (Fountain Hill), educated in its public schools and at Lehigh University (BSEE & unfinished MBA), and was an on-air personality on its radio station WGPA. He wed Miss Lehigh Valley 1965, Nancy Desiderio of Bethlehem, and had children Kirsten and Robert IV. He was General Chair of the 1969 Bethlehem Arts Festival, featuring Duke Ellington, the National Symphony, & Pennsylvania Ballet. As computer rep in the Bethlehem branch of IBM, after client-producing a national sales film, he started Robin Miller, Filmaker Inc that he grew to the largest independent producer in Pennsylvania.
Summary
A collection of previously published essays by Russell T. McCutcheon highlighting different identifying claims within the work of a number of leading scholars of religion is combined with new, substantive introductions, authored by other scholars, discussing the strategies of identification employed by the scholars whom McCutcheon analyzes.
