Liberation and Purity: Race, Religious Movements and the Ethics of Postmodernity

ISBN-13: 9781857284249 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 306 str.

Chetan Bhatt

Opis

Chetan Bhatt explores the relationships between right-wing and progressive social movements with special regard to the rise of black right-wing nationalist sympathies. He examines the way in which new technologies are impacting on these movements.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Knowledge and its alternatives; Chapter 2 Authoritarian religious movements and modern civil societies; Chapter 3 The modernity of Islamic movements; Chapter 4 The Rushdie affair and the deceptive critique of imperialism; Chapter 5 Neotraditional Hinduism and the fabrication of purity; Chapter 6 The land, the blood and the passion; Chapter 7 The new materials of ethnogenesis;

O autorze

Chetan Bhatt is ESRC Research Fellow at the University of Southampton