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The Invention of World Religions (Paperback, New)
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The Invention of World Religions (Paperback, New)
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The idea of "world religions" expresses a vague commitment to
multiculture alism. Not merely a descriptive concept, "world
religions" is also a particular ethos, a pluralist ideology, a
logic of classification, and a form of knowledge that has shaped
the study of religion and infiltrated ordinary language. In this
ambitious study, Tomoko Masuzawa examines the emergence of "world
religions" in modern European thought through a close reading of a
variety of sources as early as the seventeenth century. Devoting
particular attention to the relation between the comparative study
of language and the nascent science of religion, she demonstrates
how new classifications of language and race caused Buddhism and
Islam to gain special significance as these religions came to be
seen in opposing terms - Aryan on one hand and Semitic on the
other. Masuzawa also explores the complex relation of "world
religions" to Protestant theology, from the hierarchical ordering
of religions typical of the Christian supremacists of the
nineteenth century, to the aspirations of early twentieth-century
theologian Ernst Troeltsch, who embraced the pluralist logic of
"world religions" and by so doing sought to reclaim the
universalist destiny of European modernity.
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