Secularism and Religion-Making.

Secularism and Religion-Making.

"This book conceives of "religion-making" broadly as the multiple ways in which social and cultural phenomena are configured and reconfigured within the matrix of a world-religion discourse that is historically and semantically rooted in particular Western and predominantly Christian...

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Main Author: Dressler, Markus
Other Authors: Mandair, Arvind
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2011.
Series:AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion Series.
Subjects:
Secularism.
Religion and sociology.
sociology of religion.
RELIGION > Agnosticism.
Religion and sociology
Secularism
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors List; 1. Introduction: Modernity, Religion-Making, and the Postsecular; 2. Imagining Religions in India: Colonialism and the Mapping of South Asian History and Culture; 3. Translations of Violence: Secularism and Religion-Making in the Discourses of Sikh Nationalism; 4. On the Apocalyptic Tones of Islam in Secular Time; 5. Secularism, "Religious Violence," and the Liberal Imaginary; 6. The Politics of Spirituality: Liberalizing the Definition of Religion.
  • 7. Comparative Religion and the Cold War Transformation of Indo-Persian "Mysticism" into Liberal Islamic Modernity8. Apache Revelation: Making Indigenous Religion in the Legal Sphere; 9. Making Religion through Secularist Legal Discourse: The Case of Turkish Alevism; 10. Bloody Boundaries: Animal Sacrifice and the Labor of Religion; 11. Religion-Making and Its Failures: Turning Monasteries into Schools and Buddhism into a Religion in Colonial Burma; 12. Precarious Presences, Hallucinatory Times: Configurations of Religious Otherness in German Leitkulturalist Discourse; Index.

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