Edward Said and the Religious Effects of Culture.

Edward Said and the Religious Effects of Culture.

This book provides a distinctive account of Edward Said's critique of modern culture by highlighting the religion-secularism distinction on which that critique is based. Hart explores the connection between this distinction and Said's diverse writings on culture, the true-telling responsib...

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Main Author: Hart, William David
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Series:Cambridge Studies in Religion and Critical Thought, 8.
Subjects:
Said, Edward W. > Contributions in philosophy of religion.
Said, Edward W. > Contributions in concept of secularism.
Said, Edward W.
Religion > Philosophy.
Secularism.
Religion > Philosophy
Secularism
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Preliminary remarks; Chapter 1: Culture as the transfiguration of religious thought; Chapter 2: The religious effects of culture: nationalism; Chapter 3: The religious effects of culture: Orientalism; Chapter 4: The religious effects of culture: imperialism; Chapter 5: The responsibilities of the secular critic; Chapter 6: Marx, Said, and the Jewish question; Concluding remarks: religion, secularism, and pragmatic naturalism; Appendix A: Whose exodus, which interpretation?
  • Appendix B: an exchange of letters between Michael Walzer and Edward SaidNotes; Select bibliography; Index of names.

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