Research Catalog

Title

Making sense of the secular : critical perspectives from Europe to Asia / edited by Ranjan Ghosh.

Publication

Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

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Additional Authors

Ghosh, Ranjan

Description

viii, 226 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

This book offers a wide range of critical perspectives on how secularism unfolds and has been made sense of across Europe and Asia. The book evaluates secularism as it exists today - its formations and discontents within contemporary discourses of power, terror, religion and cosmopolitanism - and the focus on these two continents gives critical attention to recent political and cultural developments where secularism and multiculturalism have impinged in deeply problematical ways, raising bristling ideological debates within the functioning of modern state bureaucracies. Examining issues as controversial as the state of Islam in Europe and China's encounters with religion, secularism, and modernization provides incisive and broader perspectives on how we negotiate secularism within the contemporary threats of terrorism and other forms of fundamentalism and state-politics. However, amidst the discussions of various versions of secularism in different countries and cultural contexts, this book also raises several other issues relevant to the antitheocratic and theocratic alike, such as: Is secularism is merely a nonreligious establishment? Is secularism a kind of cultural war? How is it related to "terror"? The book at once makes sense of secularism across cultural, religious, and national borders and puts several relevant issues on the anvil for further investigations and understanding.

Series Statement

Routledge studies in religion ; 24

Uniform Title

Routledge studies in religion ; 24.

Subjects

• Säkularismus
• Religions
• Secularism
• Europa
• Asien

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : making sense of the secular / Ranjan Ghosh -- Formations of the secular state and Islam in Britain today / Naheem Jabbar -- The evolution of French secularism / Jean Baubérot -- How do you say 'secular' in Italian? / Edoardo Tortarolo -- Manifest secularisation processes in Turkey and Belgium / Karel Dobbelaere -- Secularism in Eastern Europe / Lavinia Stan and Diane Vancea -- The truth about secularism / Tabish Khair -- The dark hour of secularism : Hindu fundamentalism and colonial liberalism in India / S.N. Balagangahara and Jakob De Roover -- Elisions and erasures : science, secularism and the state : the cases of India and Pakistan / Banu Subramanium -- Sacred modernism or secular space : the ornamental politics of religion in Sri Lanka / Tariq Jazeel -- When will China become more religious? / Shaoming Zhao -- The secular and the spiritual in contemporary Japanese society / John Lie -- Korea's path of secularisation / Don Baker -- Political secularisation in Indonesia / Luthfi Assyaukanie -- Secularism in Malaysia / Christopher A. Furlow.

Call Number

JFE 16-1138

ISBN

• 9780415536950
• 0415536952

LCCN

2012019826

OCLC

772112140

Title

Making sense of the secular : critical perspectives from Europe to Asia / edited by Ranjan Ghosh.

Imprint

Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge studies in religion ; 24

Routledge studies in religion ; 24.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Ghosh, Ranjan, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-1138