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The flattening of faith
Olivier Roy's book argues that religions are becoming increasingly homogenised and commodified in the face of market-driven secularisation and technological advance, says PAUL SIMON
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Holy Ignorance: When Religion and Culture Part Ways
by Olivier Roy
|(Hurst Publishers, £14.99)
OLIVIER ROY’S main argument in Holy Ignorance — that most major religions have become detached from their initial host culture and geography — is pretty conventional.
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