This work explores conceptions of knowledge and power in Islamic and Christian traditions. The first two chapters show how the theoretical search for an essence of religion invites us to separate it conceptually from the domain of power. Other chapters explore the ways in which power and rationality were articulated in Christianity prior to the Reformation. Still others consider Salmon Rushdie's "Satanic Verses", firstly, as the textual representation of the objects anthropologists study (religion, migration, gender and cultural identity); secondly, as a political act in itself; and thirdly, as an example of the larger encounter between Western modernity and a non-Western "other".
- ISBN10 0801846315
- ISBN13 9780801846311
- Publish Date 1 August 1993
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 24 August 2000
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 296
- Language English