Liberation And Purity : Race, Religious Movements And The Ethics Of Postmodernity

Name: Liberation And Purity:Race, Religious Movements And The Ethics Of Postmodernity
ISBN: 9780203726266

doi:10.4324/9780203726266

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ABSTRACT

An examination of race and political/cultural/religious movements in the West in the context of transatlantic debates on modernity. It explains the relationship to political developments in the Third World.

Liberation And Purity

ABSTRACT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |36 pages

Knowledge and its alternatives

chapter |40 pages

Authoritarian religious movements and modern civil societies

chapter |31 pages

The modernity of Islamic movements

chapter |41 pages

The Rushdie affair and the deceptive critique of imperialism

chapter |27 pages

Neotraditional Hinduism and the fabrication of purity

chapter |53 pages

The land, the blood and the passion

chapter |39 pages

The new materials of ethnogenesis