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Secularization and Cultural Criticism: Religion, Nation, and Modernity by Vincent P. Pecora (Paperback, 2006)

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Religion is an undiscovered country for much of the secular academy, which remains deeply ambivalent about it as an object of study. On the one hand, secular scholars agree that it is time to take religion seriously. On the other, these same scholars persist in assuming that religion rests not on belief but on power and ideology. According to Vincent Pecora, the idea of the secular itself is the source of much of the contradiction and confusion in contemporary thought about religion. Pecora aims here to work through the paradoxes of secularization, which emerges in this book as an intractable problem for cultural criticism in the nation-states of the post-Enlightenment West. Secularization and Cultural Criticism examines the responses of a wide range of thinkers?Edward Said, Talal Asad, Jurgen Habermas, Walter Benjamin, Emile Durkheim, Carl Schmitt, Matthew Arnold, and Virginia Woolf, among others?to illustrate exactly why the problem of secularization in the study of society and culture should matter once again. Exploring the endemic difficulty posed by religion for the modern academy, Pecora makes sense of the value and potential impasses of secular cultural criticism in a global age.

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Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
ISBN-13
9780226653129
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95811203

Product Key Features

Book Title
Secularization and Cultural Criticism: Religion, Nation, and Modernity
Author
Vincent P. Pecora
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Religious History
Publication Year
2006
Number of Pages
224 Pages

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Item Height
225mm
Item Width
163mm
Item Weight
390g

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Vincent P. Pecora
Series Title
Religion and Postmodernism Series (CHUP)
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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