Secularism and religion-making / edited by Markus Dressler and Arvind-Pal S. Mandair.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dressler, Markus.

Mandair, Arvind-pal Singh.

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