Genealogies of Religion : Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam (9780801846328)

In "Geneologies of Religion", Talal Asad explores how religion as a historical category emerged in the West and has come to be applied 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 invokved 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".

Product details

• Format Paperback | 344 pages
• Dimensions 152 x 229 x 22.35mm | 476g
• Publication date 13 Oct 1993
• Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication City/Country Baltimore, MD, United States
• Language English
• Illustrations note No
• ISBN10 0801846323
• ISBN13 9780801846328
• Bestsellers rank 236,675

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