The Invention of Religion: Rethinking Belief in Politics and History - Derek Peterson - Books - Rutgers University Press - 9780813530932 - June 6, 2002
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The Invention of Religion: Rethinking Belief in Politics and History


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Argues that the conventional wisdom on religion makes sense only as a strategy of intellectual and political control. It examines how nationalists, officials, missionaries and scholars in the West and the colonis defined and redefined the relationship between the political and religious.


240 pages, 11 b&w illustrations

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released June 6, 2002
ISBN13 9780813530932
Publishers Rutgers University Press
Genre Theometrics > Academic
Pages 240
Dimensions 230 × 154 × 20 mm   ·   396 g
Editor Peterson, Derek
Editor Walhof, Darren

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