Religion and secularity : transformations and transfers of religious discourses in Europe and Asia / / edited by Marion Eggert and Lucian Holscher.

• TeilnehmendeR: Eggert, Marion.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Dynamics in the History of Religions 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (298 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; 1. Introduction /; 2. The Influence of Foreign Knowledge on Eighteenth Century European Secularism /; 3. The Religious and the Secular: Semantic Reconfigurations of the Religious Field in Germany from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries /; 4. The Origin of the Concept of Laïcité in Nineteenth Century France /; 5. Secularization, Re-Enchantment, or Something in between? Methodical Considerations and Empirical Observations Concerning a Controversial Historical Idea /; 6. The Concepts of ‘Religion’ and ‘Secularism’ in the Hebrew Language and Their Manifestations in Israel’s Socio-Political Dynamics /; 7. Laiklik and Its Introduction into Public Discourse in Turkey /; 8. Civic Piety: Visions of Secularity in Constitutional Iran /; 9. Equality in Hierarchy: Secularism and the Protection of Religions in Sri Lanka /; 10. Japanese Discoveries of ‘Secularization’ Abroad and at Home, 1870–1945 /; 11. Discursive Formations Surrounding ‘Religious Freedom’ in Modern Japan: Religion, Shintō, the Emperor Institution /; 12. Religionizing Confucianism and the Re-Orientation of Confucian Tradition in Modern China /; 13. The Historical Formation of the ‘Religious-Secular’ Dichotomy in Modern Korea /; Index of Objects and Terms --; Index of Personal Names.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004251332
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Marion Eggert and Lucian Holscher.

Religion and Secularity traces the history of the conceptual binary of religion and secularity in Europe and the repercussions it had in other regions and cultures of the Eurasian continent during the age of imperialism and beyond. Twelve authors from a wide range of disciplines, deal in their contributions with the trajectory, the concepts of „religion“ and „secularity/secularization“ took, as well as with the corresponding re-configurations of the religious field in a variety of cultures in Europe, the Near and Middle East, South Asia and East Asia. Taken together, these in-depth studies provide a broad comparative perspective on a penomenon that has been crucial for the development of globalized modernity and its regional interpretations.