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Invention Of World Religions

Or, How European Universalism Was Preserved in the Language of Pluralism [Paperback]

by Tomoko Masuzawa

    • Author

      Tomoko Masuzawa

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      The University Of Chicago Press

    • Published

      May 2005

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      The idea of "world religions" expresses a vague commitment to multiculture alism. Not merely a descriptive concept, "world religions" is also a particular ethos, a pluralist ideology, a logic of classification, and a form of knowledge that has shaped the study of religion and infiltrated ordinary language. In this ambitious study, Tomoko Masuzawa examines the emergence of "world religions" in modern European thought through a close reading of a variety of sources as early as the seventeenth century. Devoting particular attention to the relation between the comparative study of language and the nascent science of religion, she demonstrates how new classifications of language and race caused Buddhism and Islam to gain special significance as these religions came to be seen in opposing terms - Aryan on one hand and Semitic on the other.Masuzawa also explores the complex relation of "world religions" to Protestant theology, from the hierarchical ordering of religions typical of the Christian supremacists of the nineteenth century, to the aspirations of early twentieth-century theologian Ernst Troeltsch, who embraced the pluralist logic of "world religions" and by so doing sought to reclaim the universalist destiny of European modernity.

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      • Author

        Tomoko Masuzawa

      • Book Format

        Paperback

      • Publisher

        The University Of Chicago Press

      • Published

        May 2005

      • Weight

        518g

      • Page Count

        384

      • Dimensions

        183 x 215 x 25 mm

      • ISBN

        9780226509891

      • ISBN-10

        0226509893

      • Eden Code

        1225621

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      • Author/Creator: Tomoko Masuzawa

      • ISBN: 9780226509891

      • Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press

      • Release Date: May 2005

      • Weight: 518g

      • Dimensions: 183 x 215 x 25 mm

      • Eden Code: 1225621


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