The Deployment of 'Religion' and Other Categories as an Act of Epistemic Violence

Authors

  • Timothy Fitzgerald The University of Sterling Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/rosa.v4i2.189

Keywords:

Arvind-Pal S. Mandair, identity politics, language, monotheolingualism, postcolonialism, religion, Sikhism

Abstract

This review discusses Arvind-Pal S. Mandair’s Religion and the Specter of the West: Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and the Politics of Translation (hereafter RSW), published in 2009 by Columbia University Press.

Author Biography

  • Timothy Fitzgerald, The University of Sterling

    Timothy Fitzgerald lectures and supervises at Stirling University in Scotland. He has published many journal articles and book chapters on such topics as the history of ‘religion’ as a category, and its problematic deployments in India and Japan. His books include The Ideology of Religious Studies (Oxford University Press, 2003), Discourse on Civility and Barbarity (Oxford University Press, 2007) and Religion and Politics in International Relations: The Modern Myth (Continuum, forthcoming); and he is editor of Religion and the Secular: Historical and Colonial Formations (Equinox, 2007).

References

Berman, Eli. 2009. Radical, Religious and Violent: The New Economics of Terrorism. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Williams, David. 1994. Japan: Beyond the End of History. London: Routledge. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203303177

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Published

2012-01-20

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 2 (2010)

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How to Cite

Fitzgerald, T. (2012). The Deployment of ’Religion’ and Other Categories as an Act of Epistemic Violence. Religions of South Asia, 4(2), 189-198. https://doi.org/10.1558/rosa.v4i2.189