Invention of religion, the: rethinking belief in politics and history
Éditeur :
Rutgers University Press
ISBN :
9780813530932
Date de publication :
6 juin 2002
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 1,5 cm
Poids :
397 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Argues that the conventional wisdom on religion makes sense only as a strategy of intellectual and political control. It examines how nationalists, officials, missionaries and scholars in the West and the colonis defined and redefined the relationship between the political and religious.