Genealogies of religion : discipline and reasons of power in Christianity and Islam / Talal Asad.
| Author/creator | Asad, Talal author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1993. |
| Description | 335 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Discipline and reasons of power in Christianity and Islam |
| Contents | Genealogies -- The Construction of Religion as an Anthropological Category -- Toward a Genealogy of the Concept of Ritual -- Archaisms -- Pain and Truth in Medieval Christian Ritual -- On Discipline and Humility in Medieval Christian Monasticism -- Translations -- The Concept of Cultural Translation in British Social Anthropology -- The Limits of Religious Criticism in the Middle East: Notes on Islamic Public Argument -- Polemics -- Multiculturalism and British Identity in the Wake of the Rushdie Affair -- Ethnography, Literature, and Politics: Some Readings and Uses of Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses. |
| Review | "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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-323) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Asad, Talal. Genealogies of religion. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1993 |
| Genre/form | History (form) |
| LCCN | 93021831 |
| ISBN | 0801846315 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780801846311 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0801846323 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780801846328 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | BL50 .A85 1993 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |