ReOrienting Religion? An East-West Entanglement

This study presents a case of East-West entanglement not confined to dynamics internal to the Western trajectory of production and critique of Eurocentric notions of religion. It explores how the critical opening initiated by Wilfred Cantwell Smith in 1962 against reifying "religion" canno...

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Autores principales: Salvatore, Armando 1965- (Autor) ; Obuse, Kieko 1975- (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
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Publicado: Equinox 2023
En: Implicit religion
Año: 2021, Volumen: 24, Número: 3/4, Páginas: 331-352
(Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar:B Izutsu, Toshihiko 1914-1993 / Smith, Wilfred Cantwell 1916-2000 / Asad, Talal 1933- / Ciencias de la religión / Método de investigación / Semántica / Genealogische Methode / Islam / Historia 1956-2021
Clasificaciones IxTheo:AA Ciencias de la religión
BJ Islam
TK Período contemporáneo
Otras palabras clave:B Toshihiko Izutsu
B Islam
B Language
B Wilfred Cantwell Smith
B Qurʾan
B Kukai
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Sumario:This study presents a case of East-West entanglement not confined to dynamics internal to the Western trajectory of production and critique of Eurocentric notions of religion. It explores how the critical opening initiated by Wilfred Cantwell Smith in 1962 against reifying "religion" cannot be treated exclusively as an antecedent to the critical genealogy of religion performed by Talal Asad. We suggest that it needs to be read in the context of Smith’s collaboration with Toshihiko Izutsu, whose approach possessed a stronger counterhegemonic potential than the genealogists’ interventions in the critique of religion, which are still inscribed within a Western conceptual compass. We argue that thanks to his original skills as a philosopher of language, Izutsu put to better fruition Smith’s embryonic approach to the power-fraught character of language and discourse by studying Islamic traditions semantically, discursively, and contextually.
ISSN:1743-1697
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Implicit religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1558/imre.23162