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[Anonymous No.16459347]

I fucking hate footnotes.

How do I know India's population? Surely I don't have to footnote it. Oh I do? Where'd I get the source? Google it yourself retard.

Anyone actually see usage for footnotes outside of a fucking historian's job? Won't urls just do if people want a source instead of fucking
“India Population (LIVE).” Worldometer. Worldometer. Accessed September 27, 2020. https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/india-population/..

[Anonymous No.16459385]

>footnotes

[Anonymous No.16459557]

>>16459385
Middle is pretty based ngl desu

[Anonymous No.16459566]

>>16459385

[Anonymous No.16461106]

>>16459347
Okay, so do you want this to crop up in the middle of whatever book you're reading?

I direct the reader to foundational works of this important critical trajectory: Talal Asad, Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993; Timothy Fitzgerald, “A Critique of ‘Religion’ as a Cross-
Cultural Category,” Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 9 (1997) 91–110, the ideas in which are fleshed out further in Timothy Fitzgerald, The Ideology of Religious Studies, New York: Oxford University Press, 2000; Daniel Dubuisson, The Western Construction of Religion: Myths, Knowledge, and Ideology, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003 (translated from L’Occident et la religion: Mythes, science et idéologie, Paris: Éditions Complexe, 1998); and the neglected articles of Joachim Matthes, “Religion in the Social Sciences: A Socio-Epistemological Critique,” Akademika 56 (2000) 85–105, which draws on Joachim Matthes, “Was ist anders an Anderen Religionen? Anmerkungern zentristischen Organisation des religionssoziologischen Denkens,” in Jörg Bergmann, Alois Hahn and Thomas Luckmann (editors), Religion und Kultur, Opladen:
Westdeutscher Verlag, 1993, 16–30. Important subsequent works include: Tomoko Masuzawa, The Invention of World Religions; Or, How European Universalism Was Preserved in the Language of Pluralism, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005; Timothy Fitzgerald, Discourse on Civility and Barbarity: A Critical History of Religion and Related Categories, New York: Oxford University Press, 2007; and Arvind- Pal S. Mandair, Religion and the Specter of the West: Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and the Politics of Translation, New York City: Columbia University Press, 2009.

[Anonymous No.16462662]

>>16459347
Because you need to know the year in which India's population was measured, who measured it and how (did they go by births? Census responses? How reliable are these in a country where people live "off the grid", outside of the rule of law? How do you interpolate the missing numbers and by what means?). Perhaps these concerns aren't directly relevant to whatever you're writing, but they all subtly affect it, and by footnoting/citing it you are putting your assumptions up front. Readers may spot a weakness in your use of a particular source which undermines your writing. They may simply be interested in finding out more, and use it to follow up on your work.

Nothing is more infuriating than reading something interesting in a text about another text and not being given any indication as to where it is in that other text.

[Anonymous No.16462669]

>>16462662
huh

[Anonymous No.16462737]

>>16462662
Faggot

[Anonymous No.16462858]

>>16462662
Back to the short bus sperg

[Anonymous No.16462977]

>>16461106
Footnotes spam your page faggot, just use endnotes

[Anonymous No.16463195]

>>16459347
Boy do I got a novel for you!