Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam

by Talal Asad

Book Overview

In Geneologies of Religion, Talal Asad explores how religion as a historical category emerged in the West and has come to be applied as a universal concept.

The idea that religion has undergone a radical change since the Christian Reformation--from totalitarian and socially repressive to private and relatively benign--is a familiar part of the story of secularization. It is often invokved to explain and justify the liberal politics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801846323
• ISBN13: 9780801846328
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"