Secular Age beyond the West (eBook, ePUB)

Religion, Law and the State in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa
Redaktion: Kunkler, Mirjam

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book traces religion and secularity in eleven countries not shaped by Western Christianity (Japan, China, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Iran, Russia, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, and Morocco), and how they parallel or diverge from Charles Taylor's grand narrative of the North Atlantic world, A Secular Age (2007). In all eleven cases, the state - enhanced by post-colonial and post-imperial legacies - highly determines religious experience, by variably regulating religious belief, practice, property, education and/or law. Taylor's core condition of secularity - namely, legal permissibility and social acceptance of open religious unbelief (Secularity III) - is largely absent in these societies. The areas affected by state regulation, however, differ greatly. In India, Israel and most Muslim countries, questions of religious law are central to state regulation. But it is religious education and organization in China, and church property and public practice in Russia that bear the brunt. This book explains these differences using the concept of 'differential burdening'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108284905
• Artikelnr.: 54129271

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Mirjam Künkler and Shylashri Shankar; 2. Secularity I:
varieties and dilemmas Philip Gorski; 3. The origins of secular public
space: religion, education, and politics in modern China Zhe Ji; 4. The
formation of secularism in Japan Helen Hardacre; 5. Law, legitimacy, and
equality: the bureaucratization of religion and conditions of belief in
Indonesia Mirjam Künkler; 6. Secularity and Hinduism's imaginaries in India
Shylashri Shankar; 7. Secularity without secularism in Pakistan: the
politics of Islam from Sir Syed to Zia Christophe Jaffrelot; 8. Charles
Taylor's A Secular Age and secularization from below in Iran Nader Hashemi;
9. The politics of Jewish secularization in Israel Hanna Lerner; 10. A
Kemalist secular age? Cultural politics and radical republicanism in Turkey
Asli Bali; 11. Enigmatic variations: Russia and the three secularities John
Madeley; 12. Piety, politics and identity: configurations of secularity in
Egypt Gudrun Krämer; 13. The commander of the faithful and Moroccan
secularity Jonathan Wyrtzen; 14. Conclusions: the prevalence of the 'marked
state' Mirjam Künkler and John Madeley; 15. Afterword and corrections
Charles Taylor.