TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chidester,David
TI  - Empire of Religion: Imperialism and Comparative Religion
SN  - 9780226117577
AV  - BL2463 .C44 2014 
U1  - 200.9171200.9171241 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Impérialisme
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Comparative Religion
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Essays
KW  - Reference
KW  - British colonies
KW  - fast
KW  - Religion
KW  - Kolonialismus
KW  - gnd
KW  - Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft
KW  - Imperialisme
KW  - gtt
KW  - Kolonialisme
KW  - Godsdienstwetenschap
KW  - South Africa
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Colonies
KW  - Africa
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - Afrique
KW  - Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland
KW  - Zuid-Afrika
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Electronic book
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface; 1. Expanding Empire; 2. Imperial, Colonial, and Indigenous; 3. Classify and Conquer; 4. Animals and Animism; 5. Myths and Fictions; 6. Ritual and Magic; 7. Humanity and Divinity; 8. Thinking Black; 9. Spirit of Empire; 10. Enduring Empire; Notes; Index
N2  - How is knowledge about religion and religions produced, and how is that knowledge authenticated and circulated? David Chidester seeks to answer these questions in Empire of Religion, documenting and analyzing the emergence of a science of comparative religion in Great Britain during the second half of the nineteenth century and its complex relations to the colonial situation in southern Africa. In the process, Chidester provides a counterhistory of the academic study of religion, an alternative to standard accounts that have failed to link the field of comparative religion with eit
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