Critical religion and critical research on religion: A response to the April 2016 editorial

This response takes up some of the editorial comments for further clarification and critique. My point has been that 'politics' is as much a modern invention as 'religion'. We cannot understand the rhetorical function of 'religion' if we treat it as a stand-alone catego...

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Veröffentlicht in:Critical research on religion
1. VerfasserIn: Fitzgerald, Timothy 1947- (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Sage [2016]
In: Critical research on religion
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Critical theory / Religion / Critique of religion
RelBib Classification:AA Religionswissenschaft
AB Religionsphilosophie; Religionskritik; Atheismus
weitere Schlagwörter:B Religion
B Critical
B Politics
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Zusammenfassung:This response takes up some of the editorial comments for further clarification and critique. My point has been that 'politics' is as much a modern invention as 'religion'. We cannot understand the rhetorical function of 'religion' if we treat it as a stand-alone category referring to some supposed object or objects in the world. I am especially concerned here to keep in view the oscillating binary categories of which 'religion' forms one parasitic half, and 'politics' or 'science' the other. This critical problematization of the liberal categories of the understanding opposes and challenges their current institutionalization in the liberal academy, where they now serve the Neoliberal agenda and the reproduction of the dominant, globalising imperatives of private property.
ISSN:2050-3040
Bezug:Kritik von "Critical theory of religion vs. critical religion (2016)"
Enthält:Enthalten in: Critical research on religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/2050303216676524