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- Geertz, “Pinch of Destiny,” 3.
- Asad, Genealogies of Religion, 42.
- Buc, Dangers of Ritual, 214 – 15.
- Fenella Cannell, “Introduction: The Anthropology of Christianity” in The
Anthropology of Christianity, ed. Fenella Cannell, 41 : “[T]he work belongs to a
long tradition of antireligious social science that incorporates Christian models by
its refusal of them.” - Nisbet, The Sociological Tradition, 221 – 63 ; Milbank, Theology and Social
Theory, 52 – 61 ; and Buc, Dangers of Ritual, 194 : “The movement from theology to
the social sciences proceeded, understandably, on tracks defined in part by the-
ology’s progressively greater willingness to see religion as an integrated facet of
society.” - Carlos M. N. Eire, War against the Idols: The Reformation of Worship from
Erasmus to Calvin; and Sheehan, “Sacred and Profane.” See also Anna Sapier
Abulafia, Christians and Jews in Dispute: Disputational Literature and the Rise
of Anti- Judaism in the West (c. 1000 – 1150 ); David Nirenberg, Anti- Judaism: The
Western Tradition; and Seth Kimmel, “ ‘In the Choir with the Clerics’: Secularism
in the Age of Inquisition,” Comparative Literature 65 , no. 3 ( 2013 ): 285 – 305. - Buc, Dangers of Ritual, 178 , 210.
- For example, Sarah Stroumsa, Freethinkers of Medieval Islam: Ibn al-
Rawandi, Abu Bakr al- Razi, and Their Impact on Islamic Thought. - Derek R. Peterson and Darren R. Walhof, The Invention of Religion: Re-
thinking Belief in Politics and History, 2 ; Ussama S. Makdisi, The Culture of Sectari-
anism: Community, History and Violence in Nineteenth- Century Ottoman Lebanon. - See for instance, Gerard E. Caspary, Politics and Exegesis: Origen and the
Two Swords. - Fenella Cannell, “The Christianity of Anthropology,” Journal of the Royal
Anthropology Institute 11 , no. 2 ( 2005 ): 335 – 57 ; Webb Keane, “Anxious Transcen-
dence,” in The Anthropology of Christianity, ed. Fenella Cannell, 308 – 23 , cit. 310 :
“Transcendence, I suggest, haunts modernity in three unrealizable desires: for a
self freed of its body, for meanings freed of semiotic mediation, and for agency
freed of the press of other people.” - Asad, Genealogies of Religion, esp. 29.
- See for instance, Caroline Walker Bynum, Christian Materiality: An Essay
on Religion in Late Medieval Europe; Kellie Robertson, “Medieval Materialism: A
Manifesto,” Exemplaria 22 , no. 2 ( 2010 ): 99 – 118 ; and Steven Justice, “Eucharistic
Miracle and Eucharistic Doubt,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 42 ,
no. 2 ( 2012 ): 307 – 32. More broadly, Bruno Latour, “Can We Get Our Materialism
Back, Please?” Isis 98 , no. 1 ( 2007 ): 138 – 42 ; and Dick Houtman and Birgit Meyer,
eds., Things: Religion and the Question of Materiality. - Hurd, “The Specific Order of Difficulty of Religion,” referencing Bruno
Latour, Rejoicing: Or The Torments of Religious Speech, trans. Julie Rose, 100.