Religion and the Domestication of Dissent: Or, How to Live in a Less Than Perfect Nation (Religion in Culture: Studies in Social Contest & Construction) ... Studies in Social Contest & Construction)2005

"In this wide-ranging essay that addresses a variety of contemporary sites where the discourse on authenticity carries out generally undisclosed social work, a scholar of religion asks readers who are not necessarily familiar with recent advances in this discipline to consider how the classifications we use to name and thereby negotiate our social worlds - foremost among them the classification "religion" itself - accomplish considerable political work."--BOOK JACKET.