Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power - Couverture souple

Schaefer, Donovan O.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0822359901 ISBN 13 : 9780822359906

Editeur : Duke University Press, 2015

Synopsis

In Religious Affects Donovan O. Schaefer challenges the notion that religion is inextricably linked to language and belief, proposing instead that it is primarily driven by affects. Drawing on affect theory, evolutionary biology, and poststructuralist theory, Schaefer builds on the recent materialist shift in religious studies to relocate religious practices in the affective realm--an insight that helps us better understand how religion is lived in conjunction with systems of power. To demonstrate religion's animality and how it works affectively, Schaefer turns to a series of case studies, including the documentary Jesus Camp and contemporary American Islamophobia. Placing affect theory in conversation with post-Darwinian evolutionary theory, Schaefer explores the extent to which nonhuman animals have the capacity to practice religion, linking human forms of religion and power through a new analysis of the chimpanzee waterfall dance as observed by Jane Goodall. In this compelling case for the use of affect theory in religious studies, Schaefer provides a new model for mapping relations between religion, politics, species, globalization, secularism, race, and ethics.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Donovan O. Schaefer is Departmental Lecturer in Science and Religion at the University of Oxford.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Duke University Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0822359901
• ISBN 13: 9780822359906
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
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