The secular in South, East, and Southeast Asia / Kenneth Dean, Peter van der Veer, editors.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Dean, Kenneth, 1956- editor.

Veer, Peter van der, editor.

National University of Singapore. Asia Research Institute, host institution.

Conference Name:

Secular Age in South, East, and Southeast Asia? (2017 : National University of Singapore)

Series:

Global diversities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Taylor, Charles, 1931- Secular age.

Taylor, Charles.

Secularism--South Asia.

Secularism.

Secularism--East Asia.

Secularism--Southeast Asia.

East Asia.

South Asia.

Southeast Asia.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xv, 325 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]

Summary:

"This innovative edited collection provides a comprehensive analysis of modern secularism across Asia which contests and expands prevailing accounts that have predominantly focused on the West. Its authors highlight that terms like 'secular', 'secularization', and 'secularism' do not carry the same meanings in the very different historical and cultural contexts of Asia. Critiquing Charles Taylor's account of secularism, this book examines what travelled and what not in 'the imperial encounter' between Western secular modernity and other traditions outside of the West. Throughout the book, state responses to religion at different points in Chinese and South-East Asian history are carefully considered, providing a nuanced and in-depth understanding of post-secular strategies and relations in these areas. Particular attention is given to Catholicism in the Philippines, Vietnam, and Singapore, and Hinduism and Chinese religion in Malaysia, Singapore, and India. This theoretically engaged work will appeal to students and scholars of Asian studies, anthropology, religious studies, history, sociology, and political science." -- Publisher's description

Contents:

Introduction / Kenneth Dean, Peter van der Veer

Asian Catholicism, interreligious colonial encounters and dynamics of secularism in Asia / Jose Casanova

The secular in India and China / Peter van der Veer Spirit Mediums and secular-religious divides in Singapore / Kenneth Dean

Secularization, sacralization and subject formation in Modern China / David A. Palmer, Fabian Winiger

The third globalization of Catholicism in Greater China / Richard Madsen

"Folk belief," cultural turn of secular governance and shifting religious landscape in contemporary China / Xiaoxuan Wang

The roles of secular states in the development of contemporary Chinese Buddhism: a cross-strait perspective on Buddhist Nunneries / Tzu-Lung Chiu

Communist ideology, secularity, and reenchantment: challenges for the Catholic Church in Vietnam,1954-2015 / Peter C Phan

The Uncle Hô religion in Vietnam / Tam T.T. Ngo

From secularism to popular progressiveness: popular religion and the creation of Telangana Regionalism / Stefan Binder

Adjudicating the sacred: the fates of "native" religious endowments in India and Hong Kong / Leilah Vevaina

Secularism and religious modernity in Sri Lanka and Singapore : trans-regional revivalism considered / Neena Mahadev.

Notes:

"This book is the result of a workshop held at the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore in 2017."--Page v.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3319893688

9783319893686

OCLC:

1028589202