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Holy Ignorance

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

Holy Ignorance

By Olivier Roy

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About the book

Olivier Roy, world-renowned authority on Islam and politics, finds in the modern disconnection between faith communities and socio-cultural identities a fertile space for fundamentalism to grow. Instead of freeing the world from religion, secularization has encouraged a kind of holy ignorance to take root, an anti-intellectualism that promises immediate, emotional access to the sacred and positions itself in direct opposition to contemporary pagan culture. The secularization of society was suppo...Show more

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9781849044479

Publisher

C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd

Published year

2017

Language

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1

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Holy Ignorance

Format

Paperback

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