Modern Religion, Modern Race
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-021255-1 (ISBN)
It has become commonplace to argue that the category religion is not universal, or even very old, but is a product of Europe's Enlightenment modernization. Equally commonplace is the argument that religion is not an innocent category of analysis, but is implicated in colonial regimes of control and as such plays a role in Europe's process of identity construction of non-European "others." Current debates about race follow an eerily similar trajectory: race is not an ancient but a modern construction. It is part of the project of colonialism, and race discourse forms one of the cornerstones of modern European identity-making. Vial focuses on the development of these ideas in the late-18th and early-19th centuries in Germany. By examining the theories of Kant, Herder, and Schleiermacher, among others, Vial uncovers co-constitutive nature of race and religion, and how the two concepts are used today to make sense of the world. He shows that while we disdain the racist language of some of the founders of the religious studies discipline, our continued use of their theories leads us, unwittingly, to reiterate many of the same distinctions and hierarchies.
Although it may not be time to abandon the very category of religion, with all its attendant baggage, Modern Religion, Modern Race calls for us to critically examine that baggage, and the way in which religion has always carried within it race.
Theodore Vial teaches modern western religious thought. He is the author of Schleiermacher: A Guide for the Perplexed (2013), Liturgy Wars: Ritual Theory and Protestant Reform in Nineteenth-Century Zurich ( 2004); and co-editor of Ethical Monotheism, Past and Present: Essays in Honor of Wendell S. Dietrich (2001). Vial received his B.A. from Brown University and both M.A. and Ph. D. from The University of Chicago.
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: Kant and Race
Chapter Two: On Religion: To Schleiermacher's Theoretical Despisers
Chapter 3: Chips from Another German Workshop: Friedrich Max Müller and Friedrich Schleiermacher on Language and Religion
Chapter 4: Modern Communities, National and Religious
Chapter 5: Herder and Schleiermacher as Unfamiliar Sources of Racism
Chapter 6: The Dark Side of Modern Religion
Chapter 7: Modernity and Teleology
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 25.05.2016 |
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Zusatzinfo | 5 illus. |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 236 x 157 mm |
Gewicht | 522 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-021255-1 / 0190212551 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-021255-1 / 9780190212551 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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