Identity and the Politics of Scholarship in the Study of Religion »

The relationship of a scholar's identity to the scholarship he or she produces is a central concern in the academy and this volume is the first attempt to approach the special problems it presents for religious studies.

Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Jose Ignacio Cabezon
Sheila Greeve Davaney
Between Identity and Footnotes 32
Sheila Greeve Davaney
Identity and the Work of the Scholar of Religion 56
Jose Ignacio Cabezon
Religious Identity and the Study of Buddhism 81
Francisca Cho
Following in the Footnotes of the Apostle Paul 104
Pamela Eisenbaum
Neither Here Nor There: Crossing Boundaries,
Becoming Insiders, Remaining Catholic 136
Francis X. Clooney, S.J.
Religious Identity, Scholarship, and Teaching Religion 155
Rita Gross
Balancing Acts: Navigating Between the Ethics of Scholarship and Identity 184
Tazim Kassam
Post-Holocaust Jewish Identity and the Academy: On Traveling the Diaspora
and the Experience of the Double Standard 224
Marc Ellis
Being John Woodroffe: Some Mythical Reflections on the Postcolonial
Study of Hindu Tantra 252
Jeffrey Kripal
Identity as An Intellectual Problem 287
Kwasi Wiredu
Contributors 316