Empire of Religion Imperialism and Comparative Religion.

By:

Chidester, David [Author]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780226117577

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

BL2463 .E475 2014

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Subject: How is knowledge about religion and religions produced, and how is that knowledge authenticated and circulated? David Chidester seeks to answer these questions in Empire of Religion, documenting and analyzing the emergence of a science of comparative religion in Great Britain during the second half of the nineteenth century and its complex relations to the colonial situation in southern Africa. In the process, Chidester provides a counterhistory of the academic study of religion, an alternative to standard accounts that have failed to link the field of comparative religion with eit.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	BL2463 .44 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn870951080

Includes bibliographies and index.

Preface; 1. Expanding Empire; 2. Imperial, Colonial, and Indigenous; 3. Classify and Conquer; 4. Animals and Animism; 5. Myths and Fictions; 6. Ritual and Magic; 7. Humanity and Divinity; 8. Thinking Black; 9. Spirit of Empire; 10. Enduring Empire; Notes; Index.

How is knowledge about religion and religions produced, and how is that knowledge authenticated and circulated? David Chidester seeks to answer these questions in Empire of Religion, documenting and analyzing the emergence of a science of comparative religion in Great Britain during the second half of the nineteenth century and its complex relations to the colonial situation in southern Africa. In the process, Chidester provides a counterhistory of the academic study of religion, an alternative to standard accounts that have failed to link the field of comparative religion with eit.

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