by Olivier Roy · OXFORD UNIV PR · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780199328024
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«Holy Ignorance: When Religion and Culture Part Ways» is Olivier Roy's essay published by Oxford University Press in paperback (288 pages, in English).
Roy analyses the modern disconnect between faith and culture as a breeding ground for fundamentalism. Secularisation, Roy argues, did not remove religion from the world but consolidated a 'sacred ignorance', an emotional and immediate access to the sacred. He examines movements such as Protestant evangelism, Islamic Salafism and Haredi Judaism.
Translation into English by Ros Schwartz. Non-fiction work framed in religion, politics and history; published in 2014.
Work aimed at readers interested in the sociology of religion, fundamentalism and the relationship between faith and contemporary culture.
Olivier Roy is a French political scientist and a professor at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He has published articles and books on secularization and Islam including "Global Islam" and The Failure of Political Islam. He is known to have "a different view of radical Islam" than some other experts. He sees it as peripheral, Westernized and part of a radicalized and "virtual" rather than a pious and "actual" Muslim community. His most recent writings are about the Charlie Hebdo shooting and the November 2015 Paris attacks.
