Browse our books below. You can also search for books.
FITZGERALD, T., Discourse on Civility and Barbarity. Oxford University Press, 2012. 368p. Paperback. Timothy Fitzgerald is one of the most important scholars raising questions about the category of religion today, and in this essay he makes significant new contributions. He broadens the range of the discussion to include important but neglected categories that arose along with the category of religion, most notably the secular and the political, and he traces the emergence of this discourse in English-language texts dealing with travel and governance, showing that they emerge much later than is widely assumed. Anyone seriously interested in religion simply must take seriously Fitzgerald's central claim: it is wrong to think of religion as something that exists in and of itself, as an observable, objective domain essentially distinct from other domains such as politics and economics. Gregory Alles, Professor of Religious Studies, McDaniel College and author of Religious Studies: A Global View (Publisher's information). € 46.86 (New) (Printed on Demand) (approx. delivery time: 4 weeks) ISBN: 9780199754601