Secularism and religion-making

by Dressler, Markus Mandair, Arvind-pal Singh

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Full title :Secularism and religion-making / edited by Markus Dressler and Arvind-Pal S. Mandair.

Summary

"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 experiences, knowledges, and institutions. It investigates how religion is universalized and certain ideas, social formations, and practices rendered "religious" are thus integrated in and subordinated to very particular - mostly liberal-secular - assumptions about the relationship between history, politics, and religion. The individual contributions, written by a new generation of scholars with decisively interdisciplinary approaches, examine the processes of translation and globalization of historically specific concepts and practices of religion - and its dialectical counterpart, the secular - into new contexts. This volume contributes to the relatively new field of thought that aspires to unravel the thoroughly intertwined relationships between religion and secularism as modern concepts."--Résumé de l'éditeur.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2011.

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Versement en lot.

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Description:1 online resource (1 texte électronique).

Edition Identifiers

oclc:ocn869488060
LC Classification:BL2747.8
Dewey Decimal:211/.6

Introduction : modernity, religion-making, and the postsecular / Arvind-Pal S. Mandair and Markus Dressler -- Imagining religions in India : colonialism and the mapping of South Asian history and culture / Richard King -- Translations of violence : secularism and religion-making in the discourses of Sikh nationalism / Arvind-Pal S. Mandair -- On the apocalyptic tones of Islam in secular time / Ruth Mas -- Secularism, "religious violence", and the liberal imaginary / Brian Goldstone -- The politics of spirituality : liberalizing the definition of religion / Kerry A. Mitchell -- Comparative religion and the Cold War transformation of Indo-Persian "mysticism" into liberal Islamic modernity / Rosemary R. Hicks -- Apache revelation : making indigenous religion in the legal sphere / Greg Johnson -- Making religion through secularist legal discourse : the case of Turkish Alevism / Markus Dressler -- Bloody boundaries : animal sacrifice and the labor of religion / Mark Elmore -- Religion-making and its failures : turning monasteries into schools and Buddhism into a religion in colonial Burma / Alicia Turner -- Precarious presences, hallucinatory times : configurations of religious otherne…