A Secular Age beyond the West: Religion, Law and the State in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa
This book compares secularity in societies not shaped by Western Christianity, particularly in Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa
| Resumo: | This book compares secularity in societies not shaped by Western Christianity, particularly in Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa Cover -- Half-title page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Secularity I: Varieties and Dilemmas -- 3 The Origins of Secular Public Space: Religion, Education, and Politics in Modern China -- 4 The Formation of Secularism in Japan -- 5 Law, Legitimacy, and Equality: The Bureaucratization of Religion and Conditions of Belief in Indonesia -- 6 Secularity and Hinduism's Imaginaries in India -- 7 Secularity without Secularism in Pakistan: The Politics of Islam from Sir Syed to Zia -- 8 Charles Taylor's A Secular Age and Secularization from Below in Iran -- 9 The Politics of Jewish Secularization in Israel -- 10 A Kemalist Secular Age? Cultural Politics and Radical Republicanism in Turkey -- 11 Enigmatic Variations: Russia and the ThreeSecularities -- 12 Piety, Politics, and Identity: Configurations of Secularity in Egypt -- 13 The Commander of the Faithful and Moroccan Secularity -- 14 Conclusions: The Continued Prevalence of the "Marker State" -- 15 Afterword and Corrections -- Appendix A Quantitative Take on the Incidence of Taylor's Three Secularities in the Eleven Country Studies -- Index |
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| Descrição Física: | 1 Online-Ressource (442 pages) |
| ISBN: | 1108287069 |