Dinin Soykütükleri

Anthropology established itself as a science that would study non-Western human societies (the West's share was sociology). On the other hand, Talal Asad, who says, "Western history has primary importance, for better or worse, in the formation of the modern world, therefore the study of this history should be one of the main issues of anthropology," turns the lens of anthropology to the West and the history of the West: The conceptual geology of this history is, today, non-Western. Stating that he believes that traditions have deep implications in terms of development and change possibilities, and using Nietzsche and Foucault's concept of "genealogy" as a method, the author examines concepts such as "religion", "ritual" and "cultural translation" from a historical perspective; It focuses on religious and judicial practices such as atonement and torture in medieval Christianity, and the relationships established between confession and truth, discipline and humility. While examining the complex relations between religious practices and power, it explores the roots of the sacred in the secular and the secular in the sacred, explaining how they are intertwined. In the final chapters of the book, Asad focuses on more recent events, examining the forms taken by the "public use of reason" and "criticism" in a Muslim society due to the Gulf War in the Middle East, and the religious discourse of liberalism in the West due to the Salman Rushdie "event".
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 376

Year of Printing: 2015


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Metis Publishing

Prepared by: Savaş Kılıç

First Print Year: 2015

Number of Pages: 376

Language Turkish