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

Published by De Gruyter 2015

Multiple Secularities Beyond the West

Religion and Modernity in the Global Age

Edited by: Marian Burchardt , Monika Wohlrab-Sahr and Matthias Middell

Volume 1 in the series Religion and Its Others

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About this book

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.
In theoretical terms, the book examines three key dimensions of modern secularity: historical pathways, cultural meanings, and global entanglements of secular formations. The contributions show how differences in these dimensions are linked to specific histories of religious and ethnic diversity, processes of state-formation and nation-building. They also reveal how secularities are critically shaped through civilizational encounters, processes of globalization, colonial conquest, and missionary movements, and how entanglements between different territorially grounded notions of secularity or between local cultures and transnational secular arenas unfold over time.

Author / Editor information

Marian Burchardt, MPI Göttingen; Monika
Wohlrab-Sahr and Matthias Middell, University of Leipzig.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Multiple Secularities beyond the West: An Introduction Marian Burchardt, Monika Wohlrab-Sahr and Matthias Middell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Religious Communities and the State: Fault-Lines of Religion and Secularity in South Asia
Secular Anxieties and Transnational Engagements in India Rina Verma Williams and Laura Dudley Jenkins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
“Speaking” the Nation Secular: (E)merging Faces of India Anandita Bajpai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Anti-caste Radicalism, Dalit Movements and the Many Critiques of Secular Nationalism in India Beatrice Renzi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
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 Daniel Kinitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Secularity Contested: Religion, Identity and the Public Order in the Arab Middle East Gudrun Krämer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Part III: Secularities in East Asia
Japanese Responses to Imperialist Secularization: The Postwar Movement to Restore Shinto in the Public Sphere Mark R. Mullins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
The Religious-Secular Divide at the Community Level in Contemporary Japan Elisabetta Porcu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Part IV: African Scenarios: (Post‐)Colonial Secularity vs. African Religiosity?
Moments of Insurgency: Christianity in South African Politics, from the 18th Century to Today Paul S. Landau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
After Pentecostalism? Exploring Intellectualism, Secularization and Guiding Sentiments in Africa Rijk van Dijk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Part V: The Sacred Secular: Secularities in post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe
Vulnerable Post-Soviet Secularities: Patterns and Dynamics in Russia and Beyond Alexander Agadjanian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Socialist Secularities: The Diversity of a Universalist Model Klaus Buchenau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
Conclusions
Between World Society and Multiple Modernities: Comparing Cultural Constructions of Secularity and Institutional Varieties of Secularism Matthias Koenig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Libraries, Institutes
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 317
Keywords: Religion; modernity; secularism; globalization

eBook

Published: February 17, 2015
ISBN: 9781614514053

Hardcover

Published: January 19, 2015
ISBN: 9781614515685

Paperback

Published: June 20, 2016
ISBN: 9781614515746