Author: William T Cavanaugh
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199736645
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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.
Language: en
Pages: 296
Pages: 296
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
Language: en
Pages: 242
Pages: 242
In this challenging book, the leading exponents of the idea that all religions are a refraction of a truth no single tradition can exclusively reveal, discuss what to make of that conviction in today's world of inter-religious strife. New in this book is the inclusion of authors from a variety
Language: en
Pages: 514
Pages: 514
Violence and religion have been interacting from the beginning of recorded history according to The Reality of Religious Violence: From Biblical to Modern Times. This book addresses two major questions: 1. Does religious violence exist? 2. If so, how is it different from other types of violence? The first question
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•Світовий бестселер, який має прочитати кожен •Від автора сенсаційного «Егоїстичного гену» •Перекладено понад тридцятьма мовами Річард Докінз спонукає читача неупереджено поглянути на сенс релігії, не нав’язуючи власної думки, а заохочуючи до самостійних роздумів і висновків. Автор розглядає особливості так званої «ейнштейнівської релігії», за якою Бог — це метафора на позначення
Language: en
Pages: 175
Pages: 175
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Language: en
Pages: 287
Pages: 287
Nigeria, a country of immense natural and human resources, with the potential to actually realise the too-often meaningless notion of independence, has suffered from decades of debilitating military leadership. Covering a period of five years in the unfolding tragicomedy of Africa's most populous country, this book addresses various issues concerning
Language: en
Pages: 261
Pages: 261
Select chapters from the controversial 4-volume set examining the influence of sacred texts shaping human nature, society, politics and military strategy across the last 3,000 years.
Language: uk
Pages: 220
Pages: 220