Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Preliminary remarks
- 1 Culture as the transfiguration of religious thought
- 2 The religious effects of culture: nationalism
- 3 The religious effects of culture: Orientalism
- 4 The religious effects of culture: imperialism
- 5 The responsibilities of the secular critic
- 6 Marx, Said, and the Jewish question
- Concluding remarks: religion, secularism, and pragmatic naturalism
- Appendix A Whose exodus, which interpretation?
- Appendix B An exchange of letters between Michael Walzer and Edward Said
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index of names
Notes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Preliminary remarks
- 1 Culture as the transfiguration of religious thought
- 2 The religious effects of culture: nationalism
- 3 The religious effects of culture: Orientalism
- 4 The religious effects of culture: imperialism
- 5 The responsibilities of the secular critic
- 6 Marx, Said, and the Jewish question
- Concluding remarks: religion, secularism, and pragmatic naturalism
- Appendix A Whose exodus, which interpretation?
- Appendix B An exchange of letters between Michael Walzer and Edward Said
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index of names
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- Edward Said and the Religious Effects of Culture , pp. 200 - 227Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000