A secular age beyond the West : religion, law and the state in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa / edited by Mirjam Kunkler, John Madeley, Shylashri Shankar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Künkler, Mirjam, 1977- editor.

Madeley, John, editor.

Shankar, Shylashri, editor.

Series:

Cambridge studies in social theory, religion, and politics.

Cambridge studies in social theory, religion, and politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Secularism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 422 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

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'.

Contents:

Introduction / Mirjam Künkler, Shylashri Shankar

Secularity I : varieties and dilemmas / Philip Gorski

The origins of secular public space : religion, education, and politics in Modern China / Zhe Ji

The formation of secularism in Japan / Helen Hardacre

Law, legitimacy, and equality : the bureaucratization of religion and conditions of belief in Indonesia / Mirjam Künkler

Secularity and Hinduism's imaginaries in India / Shylashri Shankar

Secularity without secularism in Pakistan : the politics of Islam from Sir Syed to Zia / Christophe Jaffrelot

Charles Taylor's a secular age and secularization from below in Iran / Nader Hashemi

The politics of Jewish' secularization in Israel / Hanna Lerner

A Kemalist secular age? : cultural politics and radical republicanism in Turkey / Aslt Bâli

Enigmatic variations : Russia and the three secularities / John Madeley

Piety, politics, and identity : configurations of secularity in Egypt / Gudrun Krämer

The commander of the faithful and Moroccan secularity / Jonathan Wyrtzen

The continued prevalence of the "marker state" / Mirjam Künkler, John Madeley

Afterword and corrections / Charles Taylor

Appendix. A quantitative take on the incidence of Taylor's three secularities in the eleven country studies / Mirjam Kunkler, John Madeley.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Jun 2018).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-28490-6

1-108-27819-1

1-108-28706-9