The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization w/ Mohamed Amer Meziane

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HOW THE DISENCHANTMENT OF EMPIRE LED TO CLIMATE CHANGE

While industrial states competed to colonize Asia and Africa in
the nineteenth century, conversion to Christianity was replaced
by a civilizing mission. This new secular impetus strode hand in
hand with racial capitalism in the age of empires: a terrestrial
paradise was to be achieved through accumulation and the ravaging
of nature.

Far from a defence of religion, The States of the Earth argues
that phenomena such as evangelism and political Islam are best
understood as products of empire and secularization. In a world
where material technology was considered divine, religious and
secular forces both tried to achieve Heaven on Earth by
destroying Earth itself.


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