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by Talal Asad

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 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."

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  • Title Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam
  • Author Talal Asad
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: repri
  • Pages 344
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
  • Date 1993-08-18
  • ISBN 9780801846328 / 0801846323
  • Weight 1.13 lbs (0.51 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.22 x 6.1 x 0.88 in (23.42 x 15.49 x 2.24 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
    • Religious Orientation: Islamic
  • Library of Congress subjects Religion, Civilization, Islamic
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93021831
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.6

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Talal Asad is a professor of anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University.

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