Thursday 7 August 2014

Milind Wakankar, wow

"One could argue that moral techniques are fine-tuned at the threshold of their future incorporation into religion, or prior to their "ethicization" in religious prescription. The anthropologist and philosopher of religion, Gananath Obeyesekere, follows Weber in defining "ethicization" a.s the point at which "a morally right or wrong action becomes a religiously right or wrong action" (2002: 75). Here is one account of the institution of religion. This happens when moral art is retroactively rendered as "religious," overlooking the very relation established in earlier traditions between life as lived toward-death and the act of dying for another."
P14 Milind Wakankar Subalternity and Religion

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