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Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam (1st Edition) by Prof Talal Asad Paperback, 344 Pages, Published 1993 ISBN-10: 0-8018-4632-3 / 0801846323 ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-4632-8 / 9780801846328 Author Talal Asad explores how religion as a historical category emerged in the West and has come to be applied as a universal concept. The idea that religion has undergone a radical change since the Christian Reformation - from totalitarian and socially repressive to private and relatively benign - |