Edward Said and the religious effects of culture /
This book provides a distinctive account of Edward Said's critique of modern culture by highlighting the religion-secularism distinction on which it is predicated. It refers to religious and secular traditions and to tropes that extend the meaning and reference of religion and secularism in ind...
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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | inglés |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in religion and critical thought ;
8. |
| Acceso en liña: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=73031 |
Table of Contents:
- Preliminary remarks
- Culture as the transfiguration of religious thought
- The religious effects of culture: nationalism
- The religious effects of culture: Orientalism
- The religious effects of culture: imperialism
- The responsibilities of the secular critic
- Marx, Said, and the Jewish question
- Concluding remarks: religion, secularism, and pragmatic naturalism
- Whose exodus, which interpretation?
- An exchange of letters between Michael Walzer and Edward Said.