Screen LibraryMultiple secularities beyond the west : religion and modernity in the global age /
Questions of secularity and modernity have become globalized, but most studies still focus on the West. This volume breaks new ground by comparatively exploring developments in five areas of the world, some of which were hitherto situated at the margins of international scholarly discussions: Africa...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | [2015] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Religion and its others;
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| Summary: |
Questions of secularity and modernity have become globalized, but most studies still focus on the West. This volume breaks new ground by comparatively exploring developments in five areas of the world, some of which were hitherto situated at the margins of international scholarly discussions: Africa, the Arab World, East Asia, South Asia, and Central and Eastern Europe. It examines the historical pathways, cultural meanings, and global entanglements of secular formations. |
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1 online resource(vi,317pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9781614514053 |
| Index Number: | BL80 |
| CLC: | B920 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Multiple Secularities beyond the West: An Introduction / Secular Anxieties and Transnational Engagements in India / "Speaking" the Nation Secular: (E)merging Faces of India / Anti-caste Radicalism, Dalit Movements and the Many Critiques of Secular Nationalism in India / Deviance as a Phenomenon of Secularity: Islam and Deviants in Twentieth-century Egypt A Search for Sociological Explanations / Secularity Contested: Religion, Identity and the Public Order in the Arab Middle East / Japanese Responses to Imperialist Secularization: The Postwar Movement to Restore Shinto in the Public Sphere / The Religious-Secular Divide at the Community Level in Contemporary Japan / Moments of Insurgency: Christianity in South African Politics, from the 18th Century to Today / After Pentecostalism? Exploring Intellectualism, Secularization and Guiding Sentiments in Africa / Vulnerable Post-Soviet Secularities: Patterns and Dynamics in Russia and Beyond / Socialist Secularities: The Diversity of a Universalist Model / Between World Society and Multiple Modernities: Comparing Cultural Constructions of Secularity and Institutional Varieties of Secularism / List of Contributors -- Index. |