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Modern Religion, Modern Race (Paperback)
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Modern Religion, Modern Race (Paperback)
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Religion is a racialized category, even when race is not explicitly
mentioned. In Modern Religion, Modern Race Theodore Vial argues
that because the categories of religion and race are rooted in the
post-Enlightenment project of reimagining what it means to be
human, we cannot simply will ourselves to stop using them. Only by
acknowledging that religion is already racialized can we begin to
understand how the two concepts are intertwined and how they
operate in our modern world. It has become common to argue that the
category religion is not universal, or even very old, but is a
product of Europe's Enlightenment modernization. Equally common is
the argument that religion is not an innocent category of analysis,
but is implicated in colonial regimes of control and as such plays
a role in Europe's process of identity construction of itself and
of non-European "others." Current debates about race follow an
eerily similar trajectory: race is not an ancient but a modern
construction. It is part of the project of colonialism, and race
discourse forms one of the cornerstones of modern European
identity-making. Why can't we stop using them, or re-construct them
in less toxic ways? By examining the theories of Kant, Herder, and
Schleiermacher, among others, Vial uncovers co-constitutive nature
of race and religion, describes how they became building blocks of
the modern world, and shows how the two concepts continue to be
used today to form identity and to make sense of the world. He
shows that while we disdain the racist language of some of the
founders of religious studies, the continued influence of the
modern worldview they helped create leads us, often unwittingly, to
reiterate many of the same distinctions and hierarchies. Although
it may not be time to abandon the very category of religion, with
all its attendant baggage, Modern Religion, Modern Race calls for
us to examine that baggage critically, and to be fully conscious of
ways in which religion always carries with it dangerous ideas of
race.
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