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The Invention of World Religions: Or, How European Universalism Was Preserved in the Language of Pluralism - Softcover

Masuzawa, Tomoko

 
9780226509891: The Invention of World Religions: Or, How European Universalism Was Preserved in the Language of Pluralism
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226509893 ISBN 13: 9780226509891
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

The idea of "world religions" expresses a vague commitment to multiculturalism. Not merely a descriptive concept, "world religions" is actually a particular ethos, a pluralist ideology, a logic of classification, and a form of knowledge that has shaped the study of religion and infiltrated ordinary language.

In this ambitious study, Tomoko Masuzawa examines the emergence of "world religions" in modern European thought. Devoting particular attention to the relation between the comparative study of language and the nascent science of religion, she demonstrates how new classifications of language and race caused Buddhism and Islam to gain special significance, as these religions came to be seen in opposing terms-Aryan on one hand and Semitic on the other. Masuzawa also explores the complex relation of "world religions" to Protestant theology, from the hierarchical ordering of religions typical of the Christian supremacists of the nineteenth century to the aspirations of early twentieth-century theologian Ernst Troeltsch, who embraced the pluralist logic of "world religions" and by so doing sought to reclaim the universalist destiny of European modernity.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tomoko Masuzawa teaches European intellectual history and critical theory at the University of Michigan, where she holds a joint appointment in the Department of History and the Program in Comparative Literature. She is the author of In Search of Dream Time: The Quest for the Origin of Religion, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226509893
ISBN 13 
9780226509891
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
375
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