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Before Religion: A History of a Modern Concept
By (author) Brent Nongbri
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For much of the past two centuries, religion has been understood as a universal phenomenon, a part of the “natural†human experience that is essentially the same across cultures and throughout history. Individual religions may vary through time and geographically, but there is an element, religion, that is to be found in all cultures during all time periods. Taking apart this assumption, Brent Nongbri shows that the idea of religion as a sphere of life distinct from politics, economics, or science is a recent development in European history—a development that has been projected outward in space and backward in time with the result that religion now appears to be a natural and necessary part of our world. Examining a wide array of ancient writings, Nongbri demonstrates that in antiquity, there was no conceptual arena that could be designated as “religious†as opposed to “secular.†Surveying representative episodes from a two-thousand-year period, while constantly attending to the concrete social, political, and colonial contexts that shaped relevant works of philosophers, legal theorists, missionaries, and others, Nongbri offers a concise and readable account of the emergence of the concept of religion.
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Publisher | Yale University Press
Published date | 29 Sep 2015
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 288
Dimensions | 210 x 140 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 263g
ISBN | 978-0-3002-1678-3
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BISAC | religion / history
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