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Religion and the Secular - Historical and Colonial Formations (Hardcover, New)
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Religion and the Secular - Historical and Colonial Formations (Hardcover, New)
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The essays in this volume critically explore various aspects of the
modern development of the religion-secular dichotomy and its
ideological function in the assertion of colonial power since the
sixteenth century. The authors hope to illuminate the role and
formation of the modern category of religion, and of the academic
study of religion, as colonial instruments in the more general
subjection of indigenous concepts of order to the classificatory
needs of Euro-America. The methodology tends to overflow
traditional disciplinary boundaries and offers analyses that are
historiographical, literary and ethnographical. However, rather
than seeking comprehensiveness in such a vast field, the authors
here concentrate on specific aspects of the colonial relationship
either from the point of view of a particular colonized culture,
for example in Mexico, Guatemala, Vietnam, India, Japan, South
Africa and Canada, or from the point of view of the colonizing
powers, in this case England, Germany and the United States. The
authors hope to encourage further studies by specialists in
different cultures and languages in the problems of imposition,
translation and reception of the separation of "religion" from
other domains such as 'politics', 'economics' and the
'non-religious' civil domain.
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