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The invention of religion : rethinking belief in politics and history / edited by Derek R. Peterson and Darren R. Walhof.

Contributor(s): Peterson, Derek R, 1971- | Walhof, Darren R, 1969-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2002]Copyright date: ©2002Description: ix, 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0813530938 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780813530932 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Religion and politics -- HistoryDDC classification: 291.1/7 LOC classification: BL65.P7 | I58 2002Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Rethinking religion / Derek R. Peterson and Darren R. Walhof -- Why study Indian Buddhism? / Richard S. Cohen -- Gambling with God : rethinking religion in colonial central Kenya / Derek R. Peterson -- Here (we) are the Haredim : intertextuality and the voice of authority in the representation of a religious fundamentalist movement / Jeremy Stolow -- Republicizing religiosity : modernity, religion, and the middle class / Sanjay Josh -- A religion that was not a religion : the creation of modern Shinto in nineteenth-century Japan / Sarah Thal -- Secularism and religion in the Arab Middle East : reinventing Islam in a world of nation-states / James L. Gelvin -- Tra(ve)ils of secularism : Islam in museums from the Ottoman empire to the Turkish republic / Wendy M.K. Shaw -- These hills will give you great treasure" : Ozark tourism and the collapse of sacred and secular / Aaron K Ketchell -- World religions and secularization from a postcolonial and anti-Eurocentric perspective / Enrique Dussel -- Literacy in the eye of the conversion storm / Gauri Viswanathan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Rethinking religion / Derek R. Peterson and Darren R. Walhof -- Why study Indian Buddhism? / Richard S. Cohen -- Gambling with God : rethinking religion in colonial central Kenya / Derek R. Peterson -- Here (we) are the Haredim : intertextuality and the voice of authority in the representation of a religious fundamentalist movement / Jeremy Stolow -- Republicizing religiosity : modernity, religion, and the middle class / Sanjay Josh -- A religion that was not a religion : the creation of modern Shinto in nineteenth-century Japan / Sarah Thal -- Secularism and religion in the Arab Middle East : reinventing Islam in a world of nation-states / James L. Gelvin -- Tra(ve)ils of secularism : Islam in museums from the Ottoman empire to the Turkish republic / Wendy M.K. Shaw -- These hills will give you great treasure" : Ozark tourism and the collapse of sacred and secular / Aaron K Ketchell -- World religions and secularization from a postcolonial and anti-Eurocentric perspective / Enrique Dussel -- Literacy in the eye of the conversion storm / Gauri Viswanathan.

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