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Modernity, Religion, and the War on Terror

by Richard Dien Winfield

  • Paperback
  • 152 pages
  • Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Group
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 0.9 cm

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The war on terror cannot be truly understood without investigating the legitimacy of modernity, the challenge that religion presents to modernization, the inescapable conflicts attending the emergence and expansion of modernity, and the post-colonial predicament from which Islamist reaction arises. Richard Dien Winfield illuminates the war on terror in light of these issues, presenting an anti-foundationalist justification of the rationality and freedom of modernity, while assessing how religion can stand in opposition to modernity and why Islam has been a privileged vehicle of anti-modern religious revolt. Winfield shows that the privatization that religion must undergo to be compatible with modern freedom involves no capitulation to relativism, but rather is a theological imperative on which the truth of religion depends. Exposing the limits of any purely secular modernization of Islam, Winfield shows how Islam can draw upon its core tradition to repudiate the oppression of Islamist reaction and become at home in the modern world.

  • Author

    Richard Dien Winfield

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Ashgate Publishing Group

  • Published

    December 2015

  • Edition

    New edition

  • Weight

    280g

  • Page Count

    152

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 0.9 cm

  • ISBN

    9781472484130

  • ISBN-10

    1472484134

  • Eden Code

    4373827

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