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"This eloquent, lucid, and complex work is the product of remarkable intelligence and erudition; it is a profound contribution to the understanding of the cultural hegemony of the West." -- Ralph M. Coury, Religious Studies Review
"All articles are extremely well written, exhibit impressive scholarship, and are thoughtful and are thoughtful and stimulating. Asad's criticisms are neither judgmental nor self-righteous but are generally driven by the will to understand." -- James R. Wood, Contemporary Sociology
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Asad explores how religion as a historical category emerged in the West and has come to be applied as a universal concept. He writes that "religion" is a construction of European modernity, a construction that authorizes--for Westerners and non-Westerners alike--particular forms of "history making".
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In much nineteenth-century evolutionary thought, religion was considered to be an early human condition from which modern law, science, and politics emerged and became detached. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
monastic program, monastic rites, excessive charity, judicial torture, contextual method, nonwhite immigrants, cosmic framework, inquisitorial system, religious criticism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Satanic Verses, Saudi Arabia, Middle East, Salman Rushdie, South Asian, Bernard of Clairvaux, Rushdie's Chamcha, John Patten, Medieval Christian Ritual, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Fay Weldon, Natural Religion, Opus Dei, West Indian, British Muslims, Church Fathers, Mary Douglas, Robertson Smith, Church of England, Techniques of the Body New!
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In much nineteenth-century evolutionary thought, religion was considered to be an early human condition from which modern law, science, and politics emerged and became detached. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
monastic program, monastic rites, excessive charity, judicial torture, contextual method, nonwhite immigrants, cosmic framework, inquisitorial system, religious criticism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Satanic Verses, Saudi Arabia, Middle East, Salman Rushdie, South Asian, Bernard of Clairvaux, Rushdie's Chamcha, John Patten, Medieval Christian Ritual, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Fay Weldon, Natural Religion, Opus Dei, West Indian, British Muslims, Church Fathers, Mary Douglas, Robertson Smith, Church of England, Techniques of the Body New!
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- Rationality and Relativism by Martin Hollis on 4 pages
- Nuer Religion by Sir Edward E. Evans-Pritchard on page 180, and page 181
- Words and Things: An Examination of, and an Attack on, Linguistic Philosophy (Routledge Classics) by Ernest Gellner on page 175, and Back Matter
- Sacred Cows (Counterblasts Series) by Fay Weldon on page 276, and Back Matter
- The Seven Deadly Sins by Oxford University Press in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Reading Families: Women's Literate Practice in Late Medieval England by Rebecca Krug on 5 pages
- Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion) by Daniel Boyarin on 4 pages
- The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French Caribbean (John Hope Franklin Center Books) by Doris Garraway in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Politics of Evil: Magic, State Power and the Political Imagination in South Africa (African Studies) by Clifton Crais in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Politics after Television: Hindu Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Public in India by Arvind Rajagopal in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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