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Curating Global Religions
From Colonialism to Algorithmic Governmentality
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This book offers a genealogy and critique of "global religions" as a scholarly category. Beginning with competing narratives of 1492 and Columbus, it traces how the notion was curated by figures like Ninian Smart and Mark Juergensmeyer, staged at the 1993 Parliament of Worldâs Religions, and deployed in Buddhist studies scholarship. It culminates in an examination of how religion functions within liberal, neoliberal, and algorithmic modes of governmentality. Drawing on decolonial theory, Foucauldian analysis, and critical religious studies, it argues that global religions is not a neutral descriptor but a tool for organizing, disciplining, and commodifying cultural difference â and one serving increasingly authoritarian ends.
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Tenzan Eaghll received his PhD in the Study of Religion from the University of Toronto in 2016. He is currently a Lecturer and Researcher at Knox College and is the co-editor of Representing Religion in Film (2022).
Contents
Introduction: Global Religions from the Moon
â1âWhat Follows
â2âAdditional Notes on the Title and Organization of this Study
1 1492 and the Curation of a Global Christian/Colonial/ Religious Imaginary
â1â1492 and a Global Christian Imaginary
â2â1492 and the Coloniality of Power
â3âCoda
2 Curating Global Religions â Part I: from Early Modern Ecumenicism to Juergensmeyerâs Global Religions
â1âEarly Modern Christian Ecumenicism
â2âSmartâs Global Religious Education
â3âJuergensmeyerâs Global Religions
â4âCoda
3 Curating Global Religions â Part II: the 1993 Parliament of the Worldâs Religions and a Late Capitalist Critique
â1âFrom the 1893 to the 1993 Parliament of Worldâs Religions
â2âA Late Capitalist Critique of Global Religion
â3âCoda
4 Curators Global Buddhism: a Case Study
â1âGlobal Buddhism as a New Period in Buddhist History
â2âGlobal Buddhism as a Phase of Buddhist Modernism
â3âGlobal Buddhism as a Global Religion
â4âConclusion
5 Global Governmentalities of Modernity and Religion
â1âThe Emergence of a Global Governmentality
â2âThe Crisis of Liberalism
â3âNeoliberal Authoritarianism
â4âAlgorithmic Governmentality and Datafication
â5âCoda
References
Index
Introduction: Global Religions from the Moon
â1âWhat Follows
â2âAdditional Notes on the Title and Organization of this Study
1 1492 and the Curation of a Global Christian/Colonial/ Religious Imaginary
â1â1492 and a Global Christian Imaginary
â2â1492 and the Coloniality of Power
â3âCoda
2 Curating Global Religions â Part I: from Early Modern Ecumenicism to Juergensmeyerâs Global Religions
â1âEarly Modern Christian Ecumenicism
â2âSmartâs Global Religious Education
â3âJuergensmeyerâs Global Religions
â4âCoda
3 Curating Global Religions â Part II: the 1993 Parliament of the Worldâs Religions and a Late Capitalist Critique
â1âFrom the 1893 to the 1993 Parliament of Worldâs Religions
â2âA Late Capitalist Critique of Global Religion
â3âCoda
4 Curators Global Buddhism: a Case Study
â1âGlobal Buddhism as a New Period in Buddhist History
â2âGlobal Buddhism as a Phase of Buddhist Modernism
â3âGlobal Buddhism as a Global Religion
â4âConclusion
5 Global Governmentalities of Modernity and Religion
â1âThe Emergence of a Global Governmentality
â2âThe Crisis of Liberalism
â3âNeoliberal Authoritarianism
â4âAlgorithmic Governmentality and Datafication
â5âCoda
References
Index
This book would be of interest to undergraduates, graduates, and scholars in religious studies and theology; academics in postcolonial theory, critical theory, Asian studies, surveillance studies, and digital humanities as well as researchers interested in AI ethics and decolonial methodologies.