The States of the Earth An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization
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Sprache:Englisch
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
09.04.2024
Verlag
Verso BooksSeitenzahl
304
Maße (L/B/H)
23.8/15.3/2.1 cm
Gewicht
348 g
Übersetzt von
Jonathan Adjemian
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-80429-177-1
While industrial states competed to colonize Asia and Africa in the nineteenth century, conversion to Christianity was replaced by a civilizing mission. This new secular impetus strode hand in hand with racial capitalism in the age of empires: a terrestrial paradise was to be achieved through accumulation and the ravaging of nature.
Far from a defence of religion, The States of the Earth argues that phenomena such as evangelism and political Islam are best understood as products of empire and secularization. In a world where material technology was considered divine, religious and secular forces both tried to achieve Heaven on Earth by destroying Earth itself.
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