{"product_id":"the-states-of-the-earth-by-mohamed-amer-meziane-9781804291771","title":"The States of the Earth","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow did disenchantment lead to climate change? \u003ci\u003eThe States of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e argues that European empires became secular as they entered the age of coal, using Orientalism as a means of racialising the Other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhile industrial states began colonising parts of Asia and Africa in the aftermath of the French Revolution, the massive conversion of natives to Christianity waned in favour of the civilising mission. The critique of Heaven has thus overturned the Earth through empire and racial capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur globalised civilisation has not been able to rid itself of Heaven but has decided to search 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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 secularisation. Religions themselves have adapted to a world in which steam and railways were considered divine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000818745580,"sku":"9781804291771","price":46.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/10932013482830.jpg?v=1763307147","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-states-of-the-earth-by-mohamed-amer-meziane-9781804291771","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}