Hijacked: A Critical Treatment of the Public Rhetoric of Good and Bad Religion b

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This volume argues that public inquiry into religion is guided by unspoken value judgments, which are themselves the products of rarely-discussed political interests.

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Whether intentionally or not much of our public discourse on religion involves a subtle, but incredibly powerful, distinction between "good" and "bad" religion. The implications of these labeling practices are far-reaching, indeed, for such judgments manifest in terms such as "fundamentalist," "radical," and "extremist," words that are often the gauge by which governments worldwide determine everything from the parameters of religious freedom, to what constitutes an act of terrorism, to whether certain groups receive legal protections. Conversely, it is often surprising to see how different groups that may otherwise better typify the extremist profile remain unscathed by punitive governmental or social measures because of their pre-existing social popularity or perceived normalcy. This volume argues that public inquiry into religion is guided by unspoken value judgments, which are themselves the products of rarely-discussed political interests. This volume opens with a critical introduction which lays out the nature of the issue and its practical ramifications. The following chapter demonstrates how one can analytically critique the good/bad religion rhetoric as it appears in scholarship today. Hijacked is then organized around four different social institutions through which these value judgments have been established and deployed - namely, within politics, the media, the university, and the classroom. After a short introduction by the editors, each section begins with a chapter that highlights a particular case study or example of this good/bad distinction at work. The three to four responses that follow extrapolate from some element of the exemplar to provide an analysis on how such rhetoric operates in that particular social realm.

Author Biography

Leslie Dorrough Smith is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies and Philosophy at Avila University. Steffen Fuhrding teaches at the Department for the Study of Religion at Leibniz University Hannover. Adrian Hermann is Professor of Religion and Society at the Forum Internationale Wissenschaft (FIW) of the University of Bonn.

Table of Contents

PrefaceLeslie Dorrough Smith, Steffen Führding, and Adrian HermannSection 1: The Public Rhetoric of Good and Bad Religion1. Introduction: "And What Kind of Society Does That Create?"Russell T. McCutcheon, University of Alabama2. Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: Neo-Orientalism and the Study of ReligionAaron W.Hughes, University of Rochester3. Religious Studies and the Jargon of AuthenticityJason . Josephson-Storm, Williams CollegeSection 2: PoliticsIntroduction to the Politics SectionLeslie Dorrough Smith, Steffen Führding, and Adrian Hermann4. Toward a Critique of Postsecular RhetoricNaomi R. Goldenberg, University of Ottowa5. The Political Utility of the Past: The Case of Greek Fire-Walking RitualsVaiaTouna, University of Alabama6. Privatized Publics and Scholarly Silos: Gender, Religion, and their Theoretical Fault LinesK. Merinda Simmons, University of Alabama7. What's Religious Freedom Got to Do With It? On the Niqab Affair in Canadian PoliticsMatt Sheedy, University of ManitobaSection 3: MediaIntroduction to the Media SectionLeslie Dorrough Smith, Steffen Führding, Adrian Hermann8. The Strange and Familiar Spiritual Journey of Reza AslanMartha Smith Roberts, Denison University9. The Journalist-Ethnographer, Religious Diversity, and the Euphemisation of Social RelationsCarmen Becker, Leibniz University Hannover10. Scopophilia and the Manufacture of "Good" ReligionLeslie Dorrough Smith11. Naturalizing the Transnational Capitalist Class: Reza Aslan's Believer and the Ideological Reproduction of an Emerging Social FormationCraig Prentiss, Rockhurst University12. Authentic Religion – Or, How To Be A Good CitizenSteffen FührdingSection 4: UniversityIntroduction to the University SectionLeslie Dorrough Smith, Steffen Führding, Adrian Hermann13. 'Bad Religion' on the University Campus: "Political Correctness" and the Future of the Insider/Outsider Problem in the Study of Religion Adrian Hermann and Stefan Priester, University of Bonn14. Studying Religion in a Post-Truth WorldStephanie Gripentrog, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel15. The Good, The Bad, and the Non-Religion: The Good/Bad Rhetoric in Non-Religion StudiesChristopher R. Cotter, University of Edinburgh16. The Campus as a 'Safe Space'? A Sociology of Knowledge Perspective on the New Student ProtestsDavid Kaldewey, University of BonnSection 5: ClassroomIntroduction to the Classroom Section Leslie Dorrough Smith, Steffen Führding,Adrian Hermann17. What Teaching New Religions Tells Us about the Discourse on 'Good' and 'Bad' ReligionDavid G. Robertson, The Open University18. Unintentionally Constructing 'Good' and 'Bad' Religions in Teaching ClassicalEuropean Social Theories at a Japanese UniversityMitsutoshi Horii, Chaucer College19. Good and Bad, Legitimate and Illegitimate Religion in EducationWanda Alberts, Leibniz University Hannover20. Benign Religion as Normal Religion Suzanne Owen, Leeds Trinity University

Details ISBN1781797277 Year 2020 ISBN-10 1781797277 ISBN-13 9781781797273 Format Paperback Publisher Equinox Publishing Ltd Short Title Hijacked Language English Subtitle A Critical Treatment of the Public Rhetoric of Good and Bad Religion DEWEY 201.7 Pages 234 Publication Date 2020-08-17 UK Release Date 2020-08-17 Imprint Equinox Publishing Ltd Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2020-08-17 NZ Release Date 2020-08-17 Author Leslie Dorrough Smith Series NAASR Working Papers Edited by Leslie Dorrough Smith Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this

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