The Insider/Outsider Problem in the Study of Religion: A Reader (Controversies in the Study of Religion)

This anthology collects and introduces 30 classic and contemporary readings that investigate the ways in which scholars of religion have grappled with the relations between studying, practicing, and advocating. Writers range from Kant, Hume, Schleiermacher, and Otto to Ninian Smart, Mircea, Eliade, Karen McCarthy-Brown, and Wendy Doniger-O'Flaherty.