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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog alternative "Project Muse UPCC books net".
- catalog contributor b4609077.
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "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 Humility in Medieval Christian Monasticism -- Translations -- The Concept of Cultural Translation in British Social Anthropology -- The Limits of Religious Criticism in the Middle East: Notes on Islamic Public Argument -- Polemics -- Multiculturalism and British Identity in the Wake of the Rushdie Affair -- Ethnography, Literature, and Politics: Some Readings and Uses of Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-323) and index.".
- catalog extent "335 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Genealogies of religion.".
- catalog identifier "0801846315 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0801846323 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Genealogies of religion.".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog relation "Genealogies of religion.".
- catalog subject "306.6 20".
- catalog subject "BL50 .A85 1993".
- catalog subject "Christian civilization.".
- catalog subject "Islamic civilization.".
- catalog subject "Religion.".
- catalog subject "Rushdie, Salman.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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 Humility in Medieval Christian Monasticism -- Translations -- The Concept of Cultural Translation in British Social Anthropology -- The Limits of Religious Criticism in the Middle East: Notes on Islamic Public Argument -- Polemics -- Multiculturalism and British Identity in the Wake of the Rushdie Affair -- Ethnography, Literature, and Politics: Some Readings and Uses of Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses.".
- catalog title "Genealogies of religion : discipline and reasons of power in Christianity and Islam / Talal Asad.".
- catalog type "text".