Myth of Religious Violence Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict

Name: Myth of Religious Violence Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict
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ISBN: 9780195385045

ISBN-10: 0195385047

ISBN-13: 9780195385045

Edition: 2009

Authors: William T. Cavanaugh

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The idea that religion has a dangerous tendency to promote violence is part of the conventional wisdom of Western societies, and it underlies many of our institutions and policies, from limits on the public role of religion to efforts to promote liberal democracy in the Middle East. William T. Cavanaugh challenges this conventional wisdom by examining how the twin categories of religion and the secular are constructed. A growing body of scholarly work explores how the category 'religion' has been constructed in the modern West and in colonial contexts according to specific configurations of political power. Cavanaugh draws on this scholarship to examine how timeless and transcultural…

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List price: $84.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/3/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.46" wide x 9.57" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Introduction



The Anatomy of the Myth



The Invention of Religion



The Creation Myth of the Wars of Religion



The Uses of the Myth


Notes


Index