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Genealogies of Religion : Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam /
"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 totalitar...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London :
The Johns Hopkins University Press,
[1993]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | "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" |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (344 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780801895937 |