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“They Licked the Platter Clean”: On the Co-Dependency of the Religious and The Secular

“They Licked the Platter Clean”: On the Co-Dependency of the Religious and The Secular © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2007 DOI: 10.1163/157006807X240109 Method and Th eory in the Study of Religion 19 (2007) 173-199 www.brill.nl/mtsr M E T H O D T H E O R Y in the S T U D Y O F R E L I G I O N & “Th ey Licked the Platter Clean”: On the Co-Dependency of the Religious and Th e Secular 1 Russell T. McCutcheon Department of Religious Studies, 212 Manly Hall, University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0264 E-mail: russell.mccutcheon@ua.edu Abstract Th is paper argues that a methodological puzzle that stands in the way of those who critique the adequacy of a secularist perspective for studying religion is that the modern invention that goes by the name of secularism is the only means for imagining religion to exist as an item of dis- course. Drawing on a variety of efforts to move beyond the limits of binary thinking—efforts that invariably function to reaffirm one or the other pole by imagining it to predate its part- ner—the paper concludes that, for those interested in talking about such things as religion, faith, spirit, belief, experience, etc., there is no beyond to secularism, for it http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Method & Theory in the Study of Religion Brill

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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2007 DOI: 10.1163/157006807X240109 Method and Th eory in the Study of Religion 19 (2007) 173-199 www.brill.nl/mtsr M E T H O D T H E O R Y in the S T U D Y O F R E L I G I O N & “Th ey Licked the Platter Clean”: On the Co-Dependency of the Religious and Th e Secular 1 Russell T. McCutcheon Department of Religious Studies, 212 Manly Hall, University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0264 E-mail: russell.mccutcheon@ua.edu Abstract Th is paper argues that a methodological puzzle that stands in the way of those who critique the adequacy of a secularist perspective for studying religion is that the modern invention that goes by the name of secularism is the only means for imagining religion to exist as an item of dis- course. Drawing on a variety of efforts to move beyond the limits of binary thinking—efforts that invariably function to reaffirm one or the other pole by imagining it to predate its part- ner—the paper concludes that, for those interested in talking about such things as religion, faith, spirit, belief, experience, etc., there is no beyond to secularism, for it

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Published: Jan 1, 2007

Keywords: binaries; authenticity; secularism; nation-state; classification

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