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Genealogies of Religion - 9780801846328

Un libro in lingua di Talal Asad edito da Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 1993

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In Genealogies of Religion Asad explores how religion as a historical category emerged in the West and has come to be applied by scholars, journalists, and politicians as a universal concept. The idea that religion has undergone a radical change since the Christian Reformation - from totalitarian and socially repressive to private and relatively benign - is a familiar part of the story of secularization. It is often invoked to explain and justify the liberal politics and world-view of modernity. And it leads to the view that "politicized religions" threaten both reason and liberty. Asad's essays explore and question all these assumptions. He argues that "religion" is a construction of European modernity, a construction that authorizes - for Westerners and non-Westerners alike - particular forms of "history making." Asad examines aspects of this authorizing process in the so-called fundamentalism of Saudi Arabia, in the Rushdie affair in Great Britain, and in other phenomena.

Informazioni bibliografiche

  • Titolo del Libro in lingua: Genealogies of Religion
  • AutoreTalal Asad
  • Editore: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
  • Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Settembre '93
  • Genere: RELIGION
  • ISBN-10: 0801846323
  • EAN-13: 9780801846328