Genealogies of Religion

Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam

De: Talal Asad

Narrado por: Amir Abdullah

In Geneologies of Religion, Talal Asad explores how religion as a historical category emerged in the West and has come to be applied as a universal concept.

The idea that religion has undergone a radical change since the Christian Reformation—from totalitarian and socially repressive to private and relatively benign—is a familiar part of the story of secularization. It is often invoked to explain and justify the liberal politics and world view of modernity. And it leads to the view that "politicized religions" threaten both reason and liberty. Asad's essays explore and question all these assumptions. He argues that "religion" is a construction of European modernity, a construction that authorizes—for Westerners and non-Westerners alike—particular forms of "history making."

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No footnotes

I appreciate the reader for reading this important academic book. However, the reader does not read the book's footnotes, which are very important and sometimes indispensable to understand the text. He also tends to read in groups of four words and not with the flow of the actual sentence. This might not be a problem for others. I'm still going to listen to the whole audio as there are no other alternatives. Not reading the footnotes is my main concern though.