Secularization and Cultural Criticism: Religion, Nation, and Modernity

by Vincent P. Pecora

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226653129
• ISBN13: 9780226653129
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"