Multiple 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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- FrontmatterTable of ContentsMultiple Secularities beyond the West: An Introduction Burchardt, Marian ; Wohlrab-Sahr, Monika ; Middell, Matthias
- Secular Anxieties and Transnational Engagements in India Williams, Rina Verma ; Jenkins, Laura Dudley
- "Speaking" the Nation Secular: (E)merging Faces of India Bajpai, Anandita
- Anti-caste Radicalism, Dalit Movements and the Many Critiques of Secular Nationalism in India Renzi, Beatrice
- Deviance as a Phenomenon of Secularity: Islam and Deviants in Twentieth-century Egypt—A Search for Sociological Explanations Kinitz, Daniel
- Secularity Contested: Religion, Identity and the Public Order in the Arab Middle East Krämer, Gudrun
- Japanese Responses to Imperialist Secularization: The Postwar Movement to Restore Shinto in the Public Sphere Mullins, Mark R.
- The Religious-Secular Divide at the Community Level in Contemporary Japan Porcu, Elisabetta
- Moments of Insurgency: Christianity in South African Politics, from the 18th Century to Today Landau, Paul S.
- After Pentecostalism? Exploring Intellectualism, Secularization and Guiding Sentiments in Africa Dijk, Rijk van
- Vulnerable Post-Soviet Secularities: Patterns and Dynamics in Russia and Beyond Agadjanian, Alexander
- Socialist Secularities: The Diversity of a Universalist Model Buchenau, Klaus
- Between World Society and Multiple Modernities: Comparing Cultural Constructions of Secularity and Institutional Varieties of Secularism Koenig, Matthias
- List of ContributorsIndex.