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March 2014
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David Chidester
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Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Published
March 2014
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How is knowledge about religion and religions produced, and how is that knowledge authenticated and circulated? David Chidester seeks to answer these questions in Empire of Religion, documenting and analyzing the emergence of a science of comparative religion in Great Britain during the second half of the nineteenth century and its complex relations to the colonial situation in southern Africa. In the process, Chidester provides a counterhistory of the academic study of religion, an alternative to standard accounts that have failed to link the field of comparative religion with either the power relations or the historical contingencies of the imperial project. In developing a material history of the study of religion, Chidester documents the importance of African religion, the persistence of the divide between savagery and civilization, and the salience of mediations-imperial, colonial, and indigenous-in which knowledge about religions was produced. He then identifies the recurrence of these mediations in a number of case studies, including Friedrich Max Muller's dependence on colonial experts, H. Rider Haggard's and John Buchan's fictional accounts of African religion, and W. E.
B. Du Bois' studies of African religion. By reclaiming these theorists for this history, Chidester shows that race, rather than theology, was formative in the emerging study of religion in Europe and North America. Sure to be controversial, Empire of Religion is a major contribution to the field of comparative religious studies.
Author
David Chidester
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Published
March 2014
Weight
659g
Page Count
400
Dimensions
16.1 x 23.2 x 2.8 cm
ISBN
9780226117263
ISBN-10
022611726X
Eden Code
4272378
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Author/Creator: David Chidester
ISBN: 9780226117263
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Release Date: March 2014
Weight: 659g
Dimensions: 16.1 x 23.2 x 2.8 cm
Eden Code: 4272378