Russell T. McCutcheon is professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama. His interests revolve around things theoretical—from the category religion and the rhetoric of experience to the politics of the modern notion of the self. His forthcoming book, co-written with William Arnal, is The Sacred is the Profane: The Political Nature of “Religion” and will be published by Oxford University Press later this year. Although sometimes described as a threat to the study of religion, he is nonetheless kind to small children and regularly gives excessive snacks to his dog, Izzy.
“It resists classification…”
Language is a funny thing. Take my epigraph, for example: three words from the fourth paragraph of Frequencies’ project statement. I find these three words interesting—worth re-reading, even un-reading, rather than just reading—because of the contradiction that they carry along with them; for they unsay what it is that we think they just said.
Like I said, language is a funny thing.
Read the rest of Three dots and a dash.
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