The invention of religion : rethinking belief in politics and history / edited by Derek R. Peterson and Darren R. Walhof.
| Other author | Peterson, Derek R., 1971- |
| Other author | Walhof, Darren R., 1969- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2002. |
| Description | ix, 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Rethinking religion / Derek R. Peterson and Darren R. Walhof -- Why study Indian Buddhism? / Richard S. Cohen -- Gambling with God: rethinking religion in colonial central Kenya / Derek R. Peterson -- Here (we) are the Haredim: intertextuality and the voice of authority in the representation of a religious fundamentalist movement / Jeremy Stolow -- Republicizing religiosity: modernity, religion, and the middle class / Sanjay Joshi -- A religion that was not a religion: the creation of modern Shinto in nineteenth-century Japan / Sarah Thal -- Secularism and religion in the Arab Middle East: reinventing Islam in a world of nation-states / James L. Gelvin -- Tra(ve)ils of secularism: Islam in museums from the Ottoman empire to the Turkish republic / Wendy M.K. Shaw -- "These hills will give you great treasure": Ozark tourism and the collapse of sacred and secular / Aaron K. Ketchell -- World religions and secularization from a postcolonial and anti-Eurocentric perspective / Enrique Dussel -- Literacy in the eye of the conversion storm / Gauri Viswanathan. |
| Abstract | Is religion an obstacle to the values of modernity? Popular and scholarly opinion says that it is. In a world gripped in a clash of civilizations, religious absolutism seems to threaten the modern virtues of tolerance, reason, and freedom. This collection of historical essays argues that this popular view--religion versus modernity--is used by the politically powerful to construct the religious as irrational and antimodern. The authors study how nationalists, state officials, missionaries, and scholars in the West and in the colonized world defined and redefined the relationship between the political and the religious --From publisher's description. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-213) and index. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2001058681 |
| ISBN | 081353092X (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780813530925 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0813530938 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780813530932 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | BL65.P7 I58 2002 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |