{"product_id":"9781804291771","title":"The States of the Earth","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow climate, empire and secularization combined to make the modern world\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow did disenchantment lead to climate change? \u003ci\u003eThe States of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e argues that European empires have become secular as they were entering the age of coal and using Orientalism as a way of racializing the Other. While industrial states started colonizing parts of Asia and Africa in the aftermath of the French Revolution, massive conversion of natives to Christianity waned in favor of the civilizing mission.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe critique of Heaven has thus overturned the Earth through empire and racial capitalism. Our globalized civilization has not been able to get rid of Heaven but has decided to look for it on Earth by accumulating growth through the devastation of nature. The secular age is therefore a fossil age and the Anthropocene, a Secularocene.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFar from defending religion against a disenchanted modernity, this book suggests that phenomena such as evangelism or political Islam should be seen as products of empire and secularization. Religions themselves have adapted to a world in which steam and railways were considered as divine.","brand":"Mohamed Amer Meziane","offers":[{"title":"Verso Books |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2024-04-09","offer_id":44663266083071,"sku":"9781804291771","price":39.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_80671f9a-4689-4986-9cb7-5abd1d9ad82e.jpg?v=1704576423","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781804291771","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}