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  • DIALOGUES ON RELIGION—AND ITS STUDY
    RUSSELL T. MCCUTCHEON
    Dialogues on Religion—and its Study creatively revives a time-honored genre by offering a series of new speeches on religion (its definition, description, comparison, and explanation) between two old friends who periodically meet throughout the year. Eventually working their way to examining why we tend to call part of our world and our experiences religious, nonspecialist read...

    $1,060.00

  • WATER QUALITY MODELING
    STEVEN C. MCCUTCHEON
    This fascinating work is divided into two main sections. Part I reviews the basic principles of water movement in channels and the mass balance approach common to most models. It also covers the practical usefulness, model peer review, and guidance on model selection and calibration. Part II discusses flow simulation and prediction of time of travel, dye tracing and mixing, hea...

    $15,300.00

  • STUDYING RELIGION
    RUSSELL MCCUTCHEON
    Widely used as a primer, a class text, or just a provocation to critical thinking, Studying Religion clearly explains the methods and theories employed in the academic study of religion by tackling the problem of how scholars define and then study religion. Written for all newcomers to the field, its brief chapters explore the three main ways in which religion is defined and, a...

    $1,120.00

  • CRITICS NOT CARETAKERS
    RUSSELL T. MCCUTCHEON
    The essays collected together in Critics Not Caretakers argue that the study of religion must be rethought as an ordinary aspect of social, historical existence, a stance that makes the scholar of religion a critic of cultural and historical practices rather than a caretaker of religious tradition or a font of timeless wisdom and deep meaning. The book begins with several essay...

    $1,160.00

  • RELIGION IN 50 MORE WORDS
    AARON W. HUGHES / RUSSELL T. MCCUTCHEON
    Religion in 50 More Words: A Redescriptive Vocabulary provides a succinct historical, social, and political examination of some of the key words used in the modern study of religion. Differing from the first volume’s more theoretical focus, this volume analyzes more common first order descriptive terms that are used throughout the field, inviting readers to theorize their tradi...

    $640.00

  • RELIGION IN 50 WORDS
    AARON W. HUGHES / RUSSELL T. MCCUTCHEON
    Religion in 50 Words: A Critical Vocabulary is the first of a two-volume work that seeks to transform the study of religion by offering a radically critical perspective. It does so by providing a succinct and critical examination of the key words used in the modern study of religion. Arranged alphabetically, the book explores the historic roots, varied uses, and current signifi...

    $680.00

  • INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON DISABILITY EXCEPTIONS IN COPYRIGHT LAW AND THE VISUAL ARTS
    JANI MCCUTCHEON / ANA RAMALHO
    This book provides an overview of disability exceptions to copyright infringement and the international and human rights legal framework for disability rights and exceptions. The focus is on those exceptions as they apply to visual art, while the book presents a comprehensive study of copyright’s disability exceptions per se and the international and human rights law framework ...

    $1,200.00

  • HYDRODYNAMICS AND TRANSPORT FOR WATER QUALITY MODELING
    JAMES L. MARTIN / STEVEN C. MCCUTCHEON
    Hydrodynamics and Transport for Water Quality Modeling presents a complete overview of current methods used to describe or predict transport in aquatic systems, with special emphasis on water quality modeling. The book features detailed descriptions of each method, supported by sample applications and case studies drawn from the authors' years of experience in the field. Each c...

    $4,000.00

  • RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF LANGUAGE ALONE
    FELICITY MCCUTCHEON
    Religion Within the Limits of Language Alone provides a critical examination of the Wittgensteinian philosophers of religion who claim that the word 'God' cannot be understood as referring to a metaphysical being who may or may not exist. McCutcheon traces the arguments offered by these philosophers of religion back to Wittgenstein's own criticisms of speculative metaphysics, ...

    $1,040.00

  • INTRODUCING RELIGION
    WILLI BRAUN / RUSSELL T. MCCUTCHEON
    The study of religion encompasses ordinary human social practice and is not limited to the extraordinary or divine. 'Introducing Religion' brings together leading international scholars in the field of religious studies to examine religion as integral to everyday social practice. The book establishes a theoretical framework for the study of religion to analyse prayer, ritual, s...

    $1,120.00

  • FAILURE AND NERVE IN THE ACADEMIC STUDY OF RELIGION
    WILLIAM E. ARNAL / WILLI BRAUN / RUSSELL T. MCCUTCHEON
    Failure and Nerve in the Academic Study of Religion presents a provocative critique of the unwillingness of modern scholars to publically distinguish research into comparative religion from confessional studies written within denominationally-affiliated institutions. The book offers the 19th Century founders of the study of religion as a bracing corrective to contemporary timid...

    $860.00

  • RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE
    CRAIG MARTIN / RUSSELL T. MCCUTCHEON
    Many regard religious experience as the essence of religion, arguing that narratives might be created and rituals invented but that these are always secondary to the original experience itself. However, the concept of "experience" has come under increasing fire from a range of critics and theorists. This Reader presents writings from both those who assume the existence and poss...

    $1,160.00

  • THE DISCIPLINE OF RELIGION
    RUSSELL T. MCCUTCHEON
    The Discipline of Religion is a lively critical journey through religious studies today, looking at its recent growth as an academic discipline, and its contemporary political and social meanings. Focusing on the differences between religious belief and academic religious discourse, Russell T. McCutcheon argues that the invention of religion as a discipline blurs the distinctio...

    $1,280.00

  • RELIGION AND THE DOMESTICATION OF DISSENT
    RUSSELL T. MCCUTCHEON
    In its first edition, Religion and the Domestication of Dissent focused on the representations of Islam that circulated in the wake of the 9/11 attacks—representations that scholars, pundits, and politicians alike used either to essentialize and demonize it or, instead, to isolate specific aspects as apolitical and thus tolerable faith. This little book’s larger thesis therefor...

    $1,160.00

  • SUFFER THE CHILDREN
    ROBERT MCCUTCHEON
    The stories in Suffer the Children dramatize a generation's mingled faith and doubt."Suffer the Children," the title novella, follows the divergent faith journeys of three baby boomers raised in the same Presbyterian church through pivotal moments in their lives until they converge at a funeral.In "Simple Gifts," a childless and recently fatherless man questions the nature of c...

    $444.00

  • AUSTRALIAN CULTURAL POLICY UNRAVELLED
    ANNA POTTER / MARION MCCUTCHEON
    This book explores the impacts of digitization and sector internationalization on national drama production and their consequences for industry, audiences, and domestic storytelling. Using Australia as a case study, it provides a systematic evaluation of the efficacy of cultural policy intended to support the production and circulation of national drama from 2001–2024. During t...

    $1,240.00

  • BREWSTER'S MILLIONS
    GEORGE BARR MCCUTCHEON
    This classic tragicomic tale from George Barr McCutcheon transforms everyone's favorite caviar-and-champagne dream into a soul-shaking test of mistrust and reckless spending Popular, good-looking, and enterprising, Montgomery Brewster is the toast of New York. While celebrating his twenty-fifth birthday among friends, Monty receives word that his grandfather has died. Before lo...

    $85.00

  • LA CISTITIS
    MCCUTCHEON
    Agotado

    $44.00