The Myth of Religious Violence (häftad)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
296
Utgivningsdatum
2009-09-17
Förlag
OUP USA
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Black & white illustrations
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247 x 165 x 25 mm
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580 g
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1
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52:B&W 6.14 x 9.21in or 234 x 156mm (Royal 8vo) Case Laminate on White w/Gloss Lam
ISBN
9780195385045

The Myth of Religious Violence

Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict

av William T Cavanaugh
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The idea that religion has a dangerous tendency to promote violence is part of the conventional wisdom of Western societies, and it underlies many of our institutions and policies, from limits on the public role of religion to efforts to promote liberal democracy in the Middle East. William T. Cavanaugh challenges this conventional wisdom by examining how the twin categories of religion and the secular are constructed. A growing body of scholarly work explores how the category 'religion' has been constructed in the modern West and in colonial contexts according to specific configurations of political power. Cavanaugh draws on this scholarship to examine how timeless and transcultural categories of 'religion and 'the secular' are used in arguments that religion causes violence. He argues three points: 1) There is no transhistorical and transcultural essence of religion. What counts as religious or secular in any given context is a function of political configurations of power; 2) Such a transhistorical and transcultural concept of religion as non-rational and prone to violence is one of the foundational legitimating myths of Western society; 3) This myth can be and is used to legitimate neo-colonial violence against non-Western others, particularly the Muslim world.
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David Martin, Times Literary Supplement William Cavanaugh is a radical theologian who engages in subtle cultural analysis.

Michael Kessler, Journal of the American Academy of Religion Transforming the widely accepted narrative of religious violence will not be accomplished in the span of reading Cavanaughs book alone. Yet he has contributed a helpfully bold book that should spur a multi-disciplinary and critical reexamination of the narrative of religion and violence and the origins of the liberal, secular state.

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<br>William T Cavanaugh is Senior Research Professor at DePaul University in Chicago.<br>

Innehållsförteckning

INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1: The Myth of Religious Violence; Chapter 2: The Invention of Religion; Chapter 3: The Creation Myth of the Wars of Religion; Chapter 4: The Uses of the Myth; NOTES

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