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 both tried to achieve Heaven on Earth by destroying Earth itself.
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The States of the Earth
An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization
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eBook - ePub
The States of the Earth
An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization
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Topic
Theology & ReligionSubtopic
European HistoryTable of contents
- Cover
- Titlepage
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface to the English-Language Edition
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- Introduction
- 1. The Republic Converts to Islam: The French Expedition to Egypt and Its Afterlives
- 2. Giving Birth to the Universal: How the Colonization of Africa Secularized Europe
- 3. Race and the Inconvertible: On Apartheid in North Africa
- 4. Anatomy of the Fossil State: Geopolitics of Climate in Europe and Beyond
- 5. Gospels of the Reich: The Eastern Question and the Jewish Question
- 6. A Circle of Returns: Towards a Critique of Imperiality
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index
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