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The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization

Name: The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization
ISBN: 9781804291771

Mohamed Amer Meziane

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How the disenchantment of empire led to climate change

While industrial states competed to colonize Asia and Africa in the nineteenth century, conversion to Christianity was replaced by a civilizing mission. This new secular impetus strode hand in hand with racial capitalism in the age of empires: a terrestrial paradise was to be achieved through accumulation and the ravaging of nature.
Far from a defence of religion, The States of the Earth argues that phenomena such as evangelism and political Islam are best understood as products of empire and secularization. In a world where material technology was considered divine, religious and secular forces...

Anno:

2024

Casa editrice:

Verso Books

Lingua:

english

Pagine:

304

ISBN 10:

180429179X

ISBN 13:

9781804291771