Curating Global Religions : From Colonialism to Algorithmic Governmentality /
This book offers a genealogy and critique of "global religions" as a scholarly category. Beginning with competing narratives of 1492 and Columbus, it traces how the notion was curated by figures like Ninian Smart and Mark Juergensmeyer, staged at the 1993 Parliament of World's Religio...
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Language: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2026.
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Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2026.
Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion ;
25.
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Call Number: BL41
- Contents
- Introduction: Global Religions from the Moon
- 1What Follows
- 2Additional Notes on the Title and Organization of this Study
- 1 1492 and the Curation of a Global Christian/Colonial/ Religious Imaginary
- 11492 and a Global Christian Imaginary
- 21492 and the Coloniality of Power
- 3Coda
- 2 Curating Global Religions - Part I: from Early Modern Ecumenicism to Juergensmeyer's Global Religions
- 1Early Modern Christian Ecumenicism
- 2Smart's Global Religious Education
- 3Juergensmeyer's Global Religions
- 4Coda
- 3 Curating Global Religions - Part II: the 1993 Parliament of the World's Religions and a Late Capitalist Critique
- 1From the 1893 to the 1993 Parliament of World's Religions
- 2A Late Capitalist Critique of Global Religion
- 3Coda
- 4 Curators Global Buddhism: a Case Study
- 1Global Buddhism as a New Period in Buddhist History
- 2Global Buddhism as a Phase of Buddhist Modernism
- 3Global Buddhism as a Global Religion
- 4Conclusion
- 5 Global Governmentalities of Modernity and Religion
- 1The Emergence of a Global Governmentality
- 2The Crisis of Liberalism
- 3Neoliberal Authoritarianism
- 4Algorithmic Governmentality and Datafication
- 5Coda
- References
- Index.