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Genealogies of religion

por Asad, Talal

Publicado por : Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore (Maryland, Estados Unidos)) Detalles físicos: 335 páginas

Tema(s): Civilización cristiana | Civilización islámica | Religión | Religion | Sociología

Año : 1993

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Tipo de ítem	Ubicación actual	Colección	Signatura	Copia número	Estado	Fecha de vencimiento	Código de barras	Reserva de ítems
Libro	Claustro 2do piso	Libro	306.6 A798g (Navegar estantería)	Ej.1	Disponible		100140086

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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.

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