Multiple secularities beyond the west : religion and modernity in the global age / edited by Marian Burchardt, Monika Wohlrab-Sahr, and Matthias Middell.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. Religious communities and the state: fault-lines of religion and secularity in South Asia -- part 2. Nationalism, Islam and democratization: secular dynamics in the Arab world -- part 3. Secularities in East Asia -- part 4. African scenarios: (post- )colonial secularity vs. African religiosity? -- part 5. The sacred secular: secularities in post-Communist central and Eastern Europe -- Conclusions.

Multiple secularities beyond the west : an introduction / Marian Burchardt, Monkia Wohlrab-Sahr and Matthias Middell -- Secular anxieties and transnational engagements in India / Rina Verma Williams and Laura Dudley Jenkins -- "Speaking" the nation secular: (E)merging faces of India / Anandita Bajpai -- Anti-caste radicalism, Dalit movements and the many critiques of secular nationalism in India / Beatrice Renzi -- Deviance as a phenomenon of secularity : Islam and deviants in twentieth-century Egypt : a search for sociological explanations / Daniel Kinitz -- Secularity contested : religion, identity and the public order in the Arab Middle East / Gudrun Krämer -- Japanese responses to imperialist secularization : the postwar movement to restore Shinto in the public sphere / Mark R. Mullins -- The religious-secular divide at the community level in contemporary Japan / Elisabetta Porcu -- Moments of insurgency : Christianity in South African politics, from the 18th century to today / Paul S. Landau -- After Pentecostalism? Exploring intellectualism, secularization and guiding sentiments in Africa / Rijk van Dijk -- Vulnerable post-soviet secularities : patterns and dynamics in Russia and beyond / Alexander Agadjanian -- Socialist secularities : the diversity of a universalist model / Klaus Buchenau -- Between world society and multiple modernities : comparing cultural constructions of secularity and institutional varieities of secularism / Matthias Koenig.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter, viewed May 28, 2015).

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, the Arab World, East Asia, South Asia, and Central and Eastern Europe. It examines the historical pathways, cultural meanings, and global entanglements of secular formations.

In English.

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