Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam

ISBN-13: 9780801846328 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 344 str.

Talal Asad

Opis

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.-