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Auteur(s) : Furani, Khaled (1973-....)
Titre(s) : Redeeming anthropology [Texte imprimé] : a theological critique of a modern science / Khaled Furani
Édition : First edition
Publication : Oxford ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2019
Description matérielle : x, 205 pages ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-198) and index
Anthropologists have invariably engaged in their discipline as a form of redemption,
whether to escape from social restriction, nourish their souls, reform their home
polities, or vindicate "the natives." Redeeming Anthropology explores how in pursuit
of a secular science sired by the Enlightenment, adherents to a "faith in mankind"
have vacillated between rejecting and embracing theology, albeit in concealed and
contradictory ways. Mining the biographical registers of the American, British, and
French anthropological traditions, Khaled Furani argues that despite all efforts to
the contrary, theological sediments remain in this disciplining discipline. Rather
than continuing to forget, deny, and sequester it, theology can serve as a mirror
for introspection, as a source of critique offering invaluable tools for revitalization:
for thinking anew not only anthropology's study of others' cultures, but also its
very own reason. ; Redeeming Anthropology lifts a veil on anthropology as a modern
academic discipline, constituted by its secular sovereign reason and membership in
the Enlightenment-bequeathed university. Mining anthropology's biographical corpus,
Khaled Furani reveals ways theology has always existed in its recesses, despite perpetual
efforts at immuring encroachment by this banished other. Anthropologists have alternatively
spurned, disregarded, and followed forms of religiosity, transmuting their theistic
engagement in their professional work. Centrally, if unwittingly, theology remains
in anthropology's consummate rite of ethnographic immersion, defying precepts on the
autonomy of reason and knowledge production by immersing the seeker in the sought-after.
Nevertheless, anthropology ultimately commits idolatry by largely adoring the concept
of Culture, and its constructs, and upholding itself as pre-eminently an ethical triumph.
Furthermore, by limiting its horizons to finite categories of "human" and"natural,"
anthropology entangles itself in "worship" of the State and conclusively of the sovereignty
principle that powers modern reason. Recovery from idolatry might arrive should anthropological
reason become attuned to its fragility, cease to fear theistic reason, and open pathways
toward revitalization through revelation
Sujet(s) : Anthropologie -- Méthodologie
Anthropologie -- Philosophie
Indice(s) Dewey :
301 (23e éd.) = Sociologie et anthropologie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0198796439. - ISBN 9780198796435. - ISBN 9780191837715 (erroné) (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45789588t
Notice n° :
FRBNF45789588
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