Religion, the Study of Religion and other Products of Transnational and Colonial Imaginings
The category of ‘religion’ as contemporary scholarship has demonstrated is a fairly recent innovation, dating back only a few hundred years in Western thought, and ‘world religions’ as we think of it and as we teach it is an even more recent category, emerging out of European colonialism. Thus the a...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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2014
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Journal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions
Year: 2014, Volume: 1, Pages: 12-25 |
Further subjects: | B
Buddhism
B Colonialism B Religion B study of religion |
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