Speaking the Impossible 'No'

Authors

  • Robert Anthony Orsi Northwestern University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.v43i1.7

Keywords:

Asad, Geertz, religious studies, Catholicism, survivors of clerical sexual abuse

Abstract

A critical appreciation of the impact of Talal Asad's "The Construction of Religion as an Anthropological Category" to the study of religion.

Author Biography

  • Robert Anthony Orsi, Northwestern University

    Grace Craddock Nagle Professor of Catholic Studies

References

Asad, Talal. 1993. Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins.

Geertz, Clifford. 1973. The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books.

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. 1999. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Winnicott, D.W. 1971. Playing and Reality. London and New York: Routledge.

Published

2014-02-14

Issue

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Orsi, R. (2014). Speaking the Impossible ’No’. Bulletin for the Study of Religion, 43(1), 7-11. https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.v43i1.7