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RELIGION AS THE CARNIVAL OF THE SECULAR: HISTORICIZING THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS - Sovereignty and the Sacred: Secularism and the Political Economy of Religion. By Robert A. Yelle. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. 304. $100.00 (cloth); $32.50 (paper); $32.50 (digital). ISBN: 9780226585451.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 November 2021

Richard Amesbury
Richard Amesbury*
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Professor of Religious Studies and of Philosophy, Arizona State University
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sovereigntysacredsecularismcategory of religionpolitical theologypolitical economy
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Book Review Symposium on Sovereignty and the Sacred
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Journal of Law and Religion , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , December 2021 , pp. 533 - 537
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University

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