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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.--jacket. Genealogies -- The Construction Of Religion As An Anthropological Category -- Toward A Genealogy Of The Concept Of Ritual -- Archaisms -- Pain And Truth In Medieval Christian Ritual -- On Discipline And Humi

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Author

Talal Asad, Talal Asad

Publisher

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801846328

Category

religious

Subjects

Fiction, Religion, Philosophy

Rating

4.3 / 5 (177 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14