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National and religious identities : an interpretation of Regis Debray's Critique of political reason
Bibliography: leaves 214-223.
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/13906 National and religious identities : an interpretation of Regis Debray's Critique of political reason Dexter, Phillip Chidester, David Religious Studies Bibliography: leaves 214-223. This thesis is a multi-disciplinary inquiry into the nature and functioning of national identity. By interpreting a single text, The Critique of Political Reason, by the French philosopher and activist Regis Debray, a range of new analytical concepts are located and some standard concepts are recast in new terms. The religious nature of social identities, that is, the role of the sacred in society, is identified and explained. Some mainstream theories of ideology, religion, and nationalism are explored in an attempt to determine whether these tools of analysis are practicable and how these theoretical resources might be reworked in the light of Debray's analysis. As Debray shows, the national question is not a problem to be solved but a persisting dilemma to be engaged at the levels of both theory and practice. 2015-09-14T18:09:10Z 2015-09-14T18:09:10Z 1997 Master Thesis Masters MPhil http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13906 eng application/pdf Department of Religious Studies Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
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| title | National and religious identities : an interpretation of Regis Debray's Critique of political reason |
| title_full | National and religious identities : an interpretation of Regis Debray's Critique of political reason |
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| title_short | National and religious identities : an interpretation of Regis Debray's Critique of political reason |
| title_sort | national and religious identities an interpretation of regis debray s critique of political reason |
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