Holy Ignorance: When Religion and Culture Part Ways

by Olivier Roy

Book Overview

Olivier Roy, world-renowned authority on Islam and politics, finds in the modern disconnection between faith communities and socio-cultural identities a fertile space for fundamentalism to grow. Instead of freeing the world from religion, secularization has encouraged a kind of holy ignorance to take root, an anti-intellectualism that promises immediate, emotional access to the sacred and positions itself in direct opposition to contemporary pagan...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199328021
• ISBN13: 9780199328024
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.4"