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Format: XX, 377 S.

ISBN: 978-0-226-11726-3 , 978-0-226-11743-0 , 978-0-226-11757-7

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Language: English

Subjects: Theology

Keywords: Kolonialismus ; Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft

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Format: 1 online resource (398 pages)

ISBN: 9780226117577 (e-book)

Note: Includes index.

Additional Edition: Print version: Chidester, David. Empire of religion : imperialism and comparative religion. Chicago, Illinois : The University of Chicago Press, c2014 ISBN 9780226117263

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books.

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Format: 1 online resource (398 p.)

ISBN: 0-226-11757-X

Content: How is knowledge about religion and religions produced, and how is that knowledge authenticated and circulated? David Chidester seeks to answer these questions in Empire of Religion, documenting and analyzing the emergence of a science of comparative religion in Great Britain during the second half of the nineteenth century and its complex relations to the colonial situation in southern Africa. In the process, Chidester provides a counterhistory of the academic study of religion, an alternative to standard accounts that have failed to link the field of comparative religion with either the power relations or the historical contingencies of the imperial project. In developing a material history of the study of religion, Chidester documents the importance of African religion, the persistence of the divide between savagery and civilization, and the salience of mediations-imperial, colonial, and indigenous-in which knowledge about religions was produced. He then identifies the recurrence of these mediations in a number of case studies, including Friedrich Max Müller's dependence on colonial experts, H. Rider Haggard and John Buchan's fictional accounts of African religion, and W. E. B. Du Bois's studies of African religion. By reclaiming these theorists for this history, Chidester shows that race, rather than theology, was formative in the emerging study of religion in Europe and North America. Sure to be controversial, Empire of Religion is a major contribution to the field of comparative religious studies.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Preface -- , Chapter One. Expanding Empire -- , Chapter Two. Imperial, Colonial, and Indigenous -- , Chapter Three. Classify and Conquer -- , Chapter Four. Animals and Animism -- , Chapter Five. Myths and Fictions -- , Chapter Six. Ritual and Magic -- , Chapter Seven. Humanity and Divinity -- , Chapter Eight. Thinking Black -- , Chapter Nine. Spirit of Empire -- , Chapter Ten. Enduring Empire -- , Notes -- , Index , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-226-11726-X

Language: English

DOI: 10.7208/9780226117577