The invention of religion: reason, identity, and the colonialist imagination

This volume is an unprecedented work in that it examines the complicity of colonialist discourses with the discourses of religion. It investigates the waysin which the construction of 'religion' by the British functioned within a variety of colonialist discourses, and how it might continue to function as a colonialist discourse now. INDICE: Introduction Ordering the Space of Others: European Colonization and the Origins of the Study of 'Religion' The Discourse of Religion Nineteenth-Century Searches for the 'Origin of Religion' A Genealogy of Religion Throughand Beyond the English Enlightenment 17th and 18th Century Conflicts: Protestants and Roman Catholics Pre-Colonial English Contact in India Changes in Understanding: English Rule Over India The Discourses of 'Fetishism' and 'Totemism' Colonialist Discourses: Frazer and Tylor The 'Fetish' Discourse The British Perception of the 'Totem' The Religions of 'Primitive' Peoples: The Limits Imposed on Religion Conclusion Works Cited Index

• ISBN: 978-0-312-17541-2
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 200
• Fecha Publicación: 11/05/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés