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9781857284249

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

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    9781857284249

  • ISBN10:

    1857284240

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 1997-08-01
  • Publisher: Routledge

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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.

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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Knowledge and its alternativesp. 1
Authoritarian religious movements and modern civil societiesp. 37
The modernity of Islamic movementsp. 77
The Rushdie affair and the deceptive critique of imperialismp. 109
Neotraditional Hinduism and the fabrication of purityp. 151
The land, the blood and the passion: the Hindu far-rightp. 179
The new materials of ethnogenesis: communalism, the body and sciencep. 233
Notesp. 273
Bibliographyp. 283
Indexp. 297
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