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Modernity, Religion, and the War on Terror (Paperback, New Ed)
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Modernity, Religion, and the War on Terror (Paperback, New Ed)
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The war on terror cannot be truly understood without investigating
the legitimacy of modernity, the challenge that religion presents
to modernization, the inescapable conflicts attending the emergence
and expansion of modernity, and the post-colonial predicament from
which Islamist reaction arises. Richard Dien Winfield illuminates
the war on terror in light of these issues, presenting an
anti-foundationalist justification of the rationality and freedom
of modernity, while assessing how religion can stand in opposition
to modernity and why Islam has been a privileged vehicle of
anti-modern religious revolt. Winfield shows that the privatization
that religion must undergo to be compatible with modern freedom
involves no capitulation to relativism, but rather is a theological
imperative on which the truth of religion depends. Exposing the
limits of any purely secular modernization of Islam, Winfield shows
how Islam can draw upon its core tradition to repudiate the
oppression of Islamist reaction and become at home in the modern
world.
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