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Asad, Talal. Genealogy of Religion by Asad, Talal

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TitleAsad, Talal. Genealogy of Religion
CreatorAsad, Talal
Year1993
PPI600
LanguageEnglish
Mediatypetexts
SubjectTalal Asad, anthropology of Islam, Islamic Studies, anthropology of religion, Genealogy of religion, Theory of Islam
Collectionfolkscanomy_religion, folkscanomy, additional_collections
Uploaderalexey.myshelovkin
IdentifierAsadTalalGenealogyOfReligion
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Asad explores how religion as a historical category emerged in the West and has come to be applied as a universal concept. He writes that "religion" is a construction of European modernity, a construction that authorizes--for Westerners and non-Westerners alike--particular forms of "history making".