Biography
McCutcheon is a professor in the department of religious studies at the University of Alabama,and was department chair from 2001 to 2009,and again from 2013 to 2023. He was an editor of the quarterly periodical Method &Theory in the Study of Religion from 1997 to 2001. In 2005,McCutcheon was elected President of the Council of Societies for the Study of Religion,headquartered at Rice University. He is the founder and series editor for the anthology series,Critical Categories in the Study of Religion. [3]
He has been noted for a controversy concerning methodology in the field of religious studies. This controversy centered on a rather polemical exchange between McCutcheon and Robert A. Orsi,who held a teaching position at Harvard University and Harvard Divinity School,with Orsi referring to McCutcheon's book,The Discipline of Religion,as "chilling". Orsi also made the comment,"the assumption appears to be that the scholar of religion by virtue of his or her normative epistemology,theoretical acuity,and political knowingness,has the authority and the right to make the lives of others the objects of his or her scrutiny. He or she theorizes them." McCutcheon responded with a paper included in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion entitled,"It's a Lie. There's No Truth in It! It's a Sin! On the Limits of the Humanistic Study of Religion and the Costs of Saving Others from Themselves". [4]
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