Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam.

Abstract

Part 1 Genealogies: the construction of religion as an anthropological category toward a genealogy of the concept of ritual. Part 2 Archaisms: pain and truth in medieval Christian ritual on discipline and humility in medieval Christian monasticism. Part 3 Translations: the concept of cultural translation in British social anthropology the limits of religious criticism in the Middle East. Part 4 Polemics: multiculturalism and British identity in the wake of the Rushdie affair ethnography, literature and politics - some readings and uses of Salmon Rushdie's Satanic Verses.