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Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
Alaska Native Regional Corporation
Author_Timothy Fitzgerald
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CHEO
Civil Society
claims
colonial religious studies
Contemporary Society
Cosmic War
cultural hegemony
Danish Halle Mission
dichotomy
Die Christliche Welt
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ethnographic analysis
Fi Ve
Ganz Anders
indigenous epistemologies
Leipzig Missionaries
Muslim World
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Nationalist Performance
native
non-religious
Non-religious Domain
Performative Politics
political anthropology
postcolonial theory
Rath Yatra
Reifi Cation
Religion Secular Dichotomy
sacred secular power dynamics
Sacrifi Ce
Secular Narration
settlement
SPG
State Shinto
State Shinto System
Zulu Diviner
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- ISBN 9781845532666
- Weight: 703g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2007
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The essays in this volume critically explore various aspects of the modern development of the religion-secular dichotomy and its ideological function in the assertion of colonial power since the sixteenth century. The authors hope to illuminate the role and formation of the modern category of religion, and of the academic study of religion, as colonial instruments in the more general subjection of indigenous concepts of order to the classificatory needs of Euro-America. The methodology tends to overflow traditional disciplinary boundaries and offers analyses that are historiographical, literary and ethnographical. However, rather than seeking comprehensiveness in such a vast field, the authors here concentrate on specific aspects of the colonial relationship either from the point of view of a particular colonized culture, for example in Mexico, Guatemala, Vietnam, India, Japan, South Africa and Canada, or from the point of view of the colonizing powers, in this case England, Germany and the United States. The authors hope to encourage further studies by specialists in different cultures and languages in the problems of imposition, translation and reception of the separation of "religion" from other domains such as 'politics', 'economics' and the 'non-religious' civil domain.
Timothy Fitzgerald is Reader in Religion at the University of Stirling.
