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    Cavanaugh's Myth-Appropriation of Ideology: A Critical Review of The Myth of Religious Violence

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    2012-09-05
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    Anthony, Charlotte Rae
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    Abstract
    In The Myth of Religious Violence, William Cavanaugh deconstructs the category of “religion” in

    an attempt to undermine the distinction between “religious” violence and “secular” violence, and

    to examine the way in which this construction manifests itself in the conceptual apparatus of

    contemporary Western society. This paper focuses on how Cavanaugh uses the categories “myth”

    and “ideology.” Cavanaugh’s given definition and employment of “myth” is sensitive to broader

    conceptions of the category in myth-studies. Unlike “myth,” Cavanaugh does not offer a

    definition “ideology,” but he employs the term in two ways: (1) as an all-encompassing category

    that seems to override definitional issues with “religion” and; (2) pejoratively to signal the falsity

    of putatively “secular ideology” that is responsible for the creation and maintenance of the “myth

    of religious violence.” In particular, Cavanaugh does not recognize the “mythic” dimension of his

    use of the concept of “ideology.” Cavanaugh’s use of “ideology” appears to replace the general

    argument that “religion causes violence” with the equally general argument that “ideology causes

    violence” without informing his reader what he means by “ideology.”
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