Explaning the global religious revival: a response

PABLO WRIGHT

Religion and Society: An Agenda for the 21st Century.

Brill Academic Publishers

Lugar: Leiden/Boston; Año: 2007; p. 115 - 122

In this paper I make comments on Talal Asad´s paper "Explaining the religious revival: the Egyptian case", placing it in current anthropological discussions about postcolonial thinking, global-local religions, orientalism/occidentalism, and the way Western episteme has built its criteria of legitimate knowledge, reason, thruth, freedom, and democracy. In doing so, I introduce Latin American cases which can be compared and contrasted with the Egyptian one.