Irreverence and the Sacred: Critical Studies in the History of ReligionsIrreverence and the Sacred brings together some of the most cutting edge, interdisciplinary, and international scholars working today in order to debate key issues in the critical and comparative study of religion. The project is inspired in large part by the work of Bruce Lincoln, whose influential and wide ranging scholarship has consistently posed challenging, provocative, and often irreverent questions that have really pushed the boundaries of the