Multiple Secularities Beyond the West : : Religion and Modernity in the Global Age /

Multiple Secularities Beyond the West : : Religion and Modernity in the Global Age / / ed. by Marian Burchardt, Matthias Middell, Monika Wohlrab-Sahr.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Agadjanian, Alexander,
Bajpai, Anandita,
Buchenau, Klaus,
Burchardt, Marian,
Dijk, Rijk van,
Jenkins, Laura Dudley,
Kinitz, Daniel,
Koenig, Matthias,
Krämer, Gudrun,
Landau, Paul S.,
Middell, Matthias,
Mullins, Mark R.,
Porcu, Elisabetta,
Renzi, Beatrice,
Williams, Rina Verma,
Wohlrab-Sahr, Monika,
HerausgeberIn:
Burchardt, Marian,
Middell, Matthias,
Wohlrab-Sahr, Monika,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Religion and Its Others : Studies in Religion, Nonreligion and Secularity , 1
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Physical Description:1 online resource (317 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Multiple Secularities beyond the West: An Introduction
  • Part I: Religious Communities and the State: Fault-Lines of Religion and Secularity in South Asia
  • 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
  • Part II: Nationalism, Islam and Democratization: Secular Dynamics in the Arab World
  • 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
  • Part III: Secularities in East Asia
  • 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
  • Part IV: African Scenarios: (Post‐)Colonial Secularity vs. African Religiosity?
  • Moments of Insurgency: Christianity in South African Politics, from the 18th Century to Today
  • After Pentecostalism? Exploring Intellectualism, Secularization and Guiding Sentiments in Africa
  • Part V: The Sacred Secular: Secularities in post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe
  • Vulnerable Post-Soviet Secularities: Patterns and Dynamics in Russia and Beyond
  • Socialist Secularities: The Diversity of a Universalist Model
  • Conclusions
  • Between World Society and Multiple Modernities: Comparing Cultural Constructions of Secularity and Institutional Varieties of Secularism
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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