Chetan Bhatt, Chetan Bhatt University of Southampton

Liberation And Purity

Race, Religious Movements And The Ethics Of Postmodernity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An examination of race and political/cultural/religious movements in the West in the context of transatlantic debates on modernity. It explains the relationship to political developments in the Third World.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9781857284249
• ISBN-10: 1857284240
• Artikelnr.: 22268399

Autorenporträt

Chetan Bhatt is ESRC Research Fellow at the University of Southampton

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Knowledge and its alternatives
Chapter 2 Authoritarian religious movements and modern civil societies
Chapter 3 The modernity of Islamic movements
Chapter 4 The Rushdie affair and the deceptive critique of imperialism
Chapter 5 Neotraditional Hinduism and the fabrication of purity
Chapter 6 The land, the blood and the passion
Chapter 7 The new materials of ethnogenesis