“Religion” and its limits: reflections on discursive borders and boundaries

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dc.contributor.authorGoldenberg, Naomi
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-07T15:18:41Z
dc.date.available2021-10-07T15:18:41Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.descriptionJoint JISASR-JBASR Special Issueen
dc.description.abstractThe keynote contributes to critical analysis of religion and attendant categories by proposing that religions be understood as vestigial states. According to this hypothesis, religion is a modern discursive product that is not present in the Bible. The category evolves as a management strategy, a technology of statecraft to contain and control conquered, colonized and/or marginalized populations as an alternative to genocide. Examples are drawn from Greek mythology, Jewish and Druid history and recent Buddhist politics. The author uses texts pertaining to international law and political philosophy to argue that viewing religion as synonymous with displaced, uneasy, former government opposes male hegemony by revealing the political structure of mystified nostalgia for male leadership. She also maintains that understanding religions as restive governments promotes clarity in regard to contemporary conflicts between religious freedom and equality rights. Psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein and Wilfrid Bion are cited to support the disassembling of foundational terms of Religious Studies.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationGoldenberg, N. (2019) '“Religion” and its limits: reflections on discursive borders and boundaries', Journal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions, 7, pp. 1-15.en
dc.identifier.endpage15en
dc.identifier.issn2009-7409
dc.identifier.journaltitleJournal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religionsen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/12064
dc.identifier.volume7en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherISASR in association with the Study of Religions, University College Corken
dc.relation.urihttps://jisasr.org/about/current-issue-volume-7-2019/
dc.rights© ISASR 2019.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectCritical religionen
dc.subjectDeconstructionen
dc.subjectVestigial stateen
dc.subjectDeuteronomyen
dc.subjectGenocideen
dc.subjectJewish historyen
dc.subjectGreek mythologyen
dc.subjectMale hegemonyen
dc.subjectFeminist theoryen
dc.subjectPsychoanalysisen
dc.title“Religion” and its limits: reflections on discursive borders and boundariesen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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