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The Invention of World Religions
Or, How European Universalism Was Preserved in the Language of Pluralism
Taschenbuch von Tomoko Masuzawa
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
Über 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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Religion & Theologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 384
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780226509891
ISBN-10: 0226509893
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Masuzawa, Tomoko
Hersteller: The University of Chicago Press
Maße: 232 x 154 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Tomoko Masuzawa
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.05.2005
Gewicht: 0,516 kg
preigu-id: 102406218
Über 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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Religion & Theologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 384
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780226509891
ISBN-10: 0226509893
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Masuzawa, Tomoko
Hersteller: The University of Chicago Press
Maße: 232 x 154 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Tomoko Masuzawa
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.05.2005
Gewicht: 0,516 kg
preigu-id: 102406218
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