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| Author | : William T Cavanaugh |
| Publisher | : OUP USA |
| Release Date | : 03 September 2009 |
| ISBN | : 9780195385045 |
| Pages | : 296 |
| File Size | : 55,6 Mb |
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Cavanaugh challenges conventional wisdom by examining how the twin categories of religion and the secular are constructed. He examines how timeless and transcultural categories of 'religion and 'the secular' are used in arguments that religion causes violence.
Cavanaugh challenges conventional wisdom by examining how the twin categories of religion and the secular are constructed. He examines how timeless and transcultural categories of 'religion and 'the secular' are used in arguments that religion causes violence.
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