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Empire of Religion

Paperback • 2014 • 1. edition

Empire of Religion

By David Chidester

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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 ...Show more

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9780226117430

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The University of Chicago Press

Published year

2014

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1

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Empire of Religion

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