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Empire of Religion : Imperialism and Comparative Religion by David Chidester is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is Empire of Religion : Imperialism and Comparative Religion about?
How is knowledge about religion and religions produced, and how is that knowledge authenticated and circulated? David Chidester seeks to answer these questions in __Empire of Religion__, documenting and analyzing the emergence of a science of comparative religion in Great Britain during the second half of the nineteenth century and its complex relations to the colonial situation in southern Africa. In the process, Chidester provides a counterhistory of the academic study of religion, an alternative to standard accounts that have failed to link the field of comparative religion with either the power relations or the historical contingencies of the imperial project. In developing a material history of the study of religion, Chidester documents the importance of African religion, the persistence of the divide between savagery and civilization, and the salience of mediationsimperial, colonial, and indigenousin which knowledge about religions was produced. He then identifies the recurrence of these mediations in a number of case studies, including Friedrich Max Müllers dependence on colonial experts, H. Rider Haggard and John Buchans fictional accounts of African religion, and W. E.
Who reads Empire of Religion : Imperialism and Comparative Religion?
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- David Chidester
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press; The University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226117263
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Religion
- Rating
- 4.22 / 5 (7 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14