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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Автор: Hart, William David (Автор)
Формат: Licensed eBooks
Мова:Англійська
Опубліковано: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Серія:Cambridge studies in religion and critical thought ; 8.
Онлайн доступ:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=73031
Зміст:
  • 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.