Fabricating Identities

edited by Russell T. McCutcheon

Book cover: Fabricating Identities

Extent: 120 pages

Publisher: Equinox Publishing

Subjects: Cultural Studies, Religious Studies

Series: Working with Culture on the Edge

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(September 2017)

ISBN: 9781781794975

5.47 x 8.46 inches

Price: $29.95

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Hardback (Published)

(September 2017)

ISBN: 9781781794968

5.47 x 8.46 inches

Price: $29.95

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Fabricating Identities pairs early career scholars with members of Culture on the Edge, to explore how social actors identify themselves through their practices and associations. The book is arranged in a series of articles and commentaries that all press the model of seeing what we usually call identity as the result of a series of identifications-actions and circumstances that enable us to understand ourselves as related to others in specific ways. Changing relations result in changing senses of identity. With an introduction and substantive theoretical afterword, the book’s brief main chapters make it an ideal conversation-starter in classes or primer for those wishing to rethink how we normally talk about identity.

Preface Introduction 1. Who Are You? I'm a Religious Studies Scholar K. Merinda Simmons, University of Alabama 2. Am I a Religious Studies Scholar? David Robertson, Independent Scholar 3. Who Are You? I'm Wednesday's Child Craig Martin, St Thomas Aquinas College 4. Seeing the Forest and the Trees Sarah Levine, Independent Scholar 5. Who Are You? I'm Greek Vaia Touna, University of Alabama 6. You're Greek? Well, I'm (Northern) Irish, Kind'a Christopher R. Cotter, Lancaster University (PhD student) 7. Who Are You? I'm a Miser Steven Ramey, University of Alabama 8. Contesting Labels and the Study of Religion Anja Kirsch, University of Basel 9. Who Are You? I'm a Leg Crosser Russell T. McCutcheon 10. Who Am I? Merely a Player Candace Mixon, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (PhD student) 11. Who Are You? I'm a Feminist Leslie Dorrough Smith, Avila University 12. Atheism and its Consequences Ian Alexander Cuthbertson, Independent Scholar 13. Who Are You? I'm a Vegetarian Steven Ramey 14. You Are What You Eat Sarah Dees, Independent Scholar 15. Who Are You? I'm an Alabamian Russell T. McCutcheon 16. Secrecy, Stories, and Boundaries Emily A. Schmidt, University of California, Santa Barbara (PhD student) 17. Who Are You? I'm Vaia and I'm Touna Vaia Touna 18. "Naaaaaw you show me YOUR ID" Richard Newton, Elizabethtown College 19. Who Are You? I'm a New Mom K. Merinda Simmons 20. I'm a Soon-to-be Dad Jason Ellsworth, Dalhousie University (PhD student) 21. Who Are You? I am/am not a McCutcheonite Craig Martin 22. I Know You Are, But What Am I? Stacie Swain, University of Ottawa (PhD student) 23. Who Are You? I'm Short (... And Cute) Leslie Dorrough Smith 24. I'm "Irish," Torontonian, ... French? Matt Sheedy, Independent Scholar Afterword Russell McCutcheon

  • Edited by Russell T McCutcheon