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World Religions: A Historical Approach, 3rd edition

that the public study of religion should embrace methodological reductionism; (3) that the core tasks of religious studies scholars are redescription and theoretically grounded explanation; (4) that religious studies ought to be engaged in critique rather than caretaking. If McCutcheon understood the ways in which critique is a form of caretaking, if he actually described (rather than legislated) the study of religion, if he actually tendered a new theory (rather than repeatedly call for it), and if his loyalty to the dominating discourse of the Toronto-ChicagoTheory-and-Method-School were less devotional and more critical, the book would be downright compelling.