Timothy Fitzgerald

Religion and the Secular (eBook, ePUB)

Historical and Colonial Formations

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Religion has dominated colonialism since the 16th century. 'Religion and the Secular' critically examines how religion has been used to subject indigenous concepts to the needs of colonial powers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317490999
• Artikelnr.: 42009615

Autorenporträt

Timothy Fitzgerald is Reader in Religion at the University of Stirling.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Timothy Fitzgerald 1. Dialectics of Conversion: Las Casas and
Maya Colonial and Post-colonial Congregacion Anna Blume, (SUNY College of
Visual Arts) 2. The Higher Ground: The Secular Knowledge of Objects of
Religious Devotion Trevor Stack (University of Aberdeen) 3. The Alaskan
Native Claims Settlement Act in the Context of the Colonisation of the
Indigenous People of Alaska James Cox, (University of Edinburgh) 4. State
Shinto, Westernisation, and the Concept of Religion in Japan Jun'ichi
Isomae, (Japan Women's College) 5. Religious and Secular in the Vietnam War
and the Emergence of Highland Ethno-nationalism Tom Pearson, (Wabash Center
for Learning) 6. Colonialism all the way down? Religion and the secular in
early modern writing on south India Will Sweetman, (University of Otaga) 7.
Politics as Performance in Colonial and Postcolonial India John Zavos,
(University of Manchester) 8. Imperial Inventions of Religion in Colonial
Southern Africa David Chidester, (University of Cape Town) 9. Religion in
Islamic Thought and Practice Abdulkader Ismail Tayob (University of Cape
Town) 10. Rudolf Otto, German Cultural Colonialism, and the 'Discovery' of
the Holy Gregory Alles, (McDaniel College) 11. Encompassing Religion and
privatised religions and the invention of modern politics Timothy
Fitzgerald 12. Colonialism and the Myth of Religious Violence William T.
Cavanaugh, (University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN.)