Multiple modernities and postsecular societies
by Rosati, Massimo Stoeckl, Kristina
Engaging with the idea that the world reveals not one, but many routes to modernity, this volume explores the role of religion in the emergence of multiple forms of modernity, which evolve according to specific cultural conditions and interpretations of the 'modern project'. Drawing upon case study material from Africa, The Middle East, Russia and South America, it examines the question of whether modernity, democracy and secularism are universalistic concepts or are, on the contrary, unique to…
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- Full title :Multiple modernities and postsecular societies / edited by Massimo Rosati, Kristina Stoeckl.
Summary
Engaging with the idea that the world reveals not one, but many routes to modernity, this volume explores the role of religion in the emergence of multiple forms of modernity, which evolve according to specific cultural conditions and interpretations of the 'modern project'. Drawing upon case study material from Africa, The Middle East, Russia and South America, it examines the question of whether modernity, democracy and secularism are universalistic concepts or are, on the contrary, unique to Western civilization, whilst considering the relationship of postsecularism to the varied paths of m.
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- Publication Date:©2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Ashgate
- Place of Publication:Farnham, Surrey, England
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xii, 188 pages) : : illustrations, map.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781409444138, 1409444139, 9781409472384, 1409472388, 1283705729, 9781283705721
- oclc:ocn817752578
- LC Classification:BL2752
- Dewey Decimal:301
Table of Contents
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 From Multiple Modernities to Multiple Democracies; 2 Multifaceted or Fragmented Public Spheres in Turkey and Iran; 3 The Turkish Laboratory: Local Modernity and the Postsecular in Turkey; 4 Russia's 'Cursed Issues', Post-Soviet Religion, and the Endurance of Secular Modernity; 5 European Integration and Russian Orthodoxy: Two Multiple Modernities Perspectives; 6 A State Goddess in the New Secular Nepal: Reflections on the Kumari Case at the Supreme Court.
7 Big Man of the Big God: Nigeria as a Laboratory for Multiple Modernities8 The Modernity of New Societies: South Africa, Brazil and the Prospect of a World-Sociology; Index.
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