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Secularism and religion-making / edited by Markus Dressler and Arvind-Pal S. Mandair.
Van Pelt Library BL2747.8 .S343 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Secularism.
- Religion and sociology.
- Physical Description:
- x, 275 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- Introduction : modernity, religion-making, and the postsecular / Arvind-Pal S. Mandair and Markus Dressler
- Imagining religions in India : colonialism and the mapping of South Asian history and culture / Richard King
- Translations of violence : secularism and religion-making in the discourses of Sikh nationalism / Arvind-Pal S. Mandair
- On the apocalyptic tones of Islam in secular time / Ruth Mas
- Secularism, "religious violence", and the liberal imaginary / Brian Goldstone
- The politics of spirituality : liberalizing the definition of religion / Kerry A. Mitchell
- Comparative religion and the Cold War transformation of Indo-Persian "mysticism" into liberal Islamic modernity / Rosemary R. Hicks
- Apache revelation : making indigenous religion in the legal sphere / Greg Johnson
- Making religion through secularist legal discourse : the case of Turkish Alevism / Markus Dressler
- Bloody boundaries : animal sacrifice and the labor of religion / Mark Elmore
- Religion-making and its failures : turning monasteries into schools and Buddhism into a religion in colonial Burma / Alicia Turner
- Precarious presences, hallucinatory times : configurations of religious otherness in German Leitkulturalist discourse / Michael Nijhawan.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 019978292X
- 9780199782949
- 0199782946
- 9780199782925
- OCLC:
- 666491832
- Publisher Number:
- 99945665959
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