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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