Title:	Identity and the Politics of Scholarship in the Study of Religion
Authors:	Ignacio Cabezón, José Sheila Greeve Davaney Sheila Greeve Davaney
Keywords:	Religion—Study and teaching
Issue Date:	2004
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis Group
Description:	The ideal of rationality was, according to philosopher Stephen Toulmin, accompanied by the “myth of the clean slate,” a myth that saw rationality as the means “to sweep away the inherited clutter from traditions, clean the slate and start again from scratch.”1 To start again, without the distortions of inheritance, became not only the watchword for intellectual, especially scientific, pursuits, but also the model for modern political visions in this revolutionary age. Few modern developments display as much antipathy toward the past, tradition, and the conditioned character of individual and communal identities as did the French Revolution.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/56220
ISBN:	0-415-97065-2
Appears in Collections:	Religion

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