A Secular Age beyond the West

ISBN-13: 9781108417716 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 440 str.

Mirjam Kunkler; John Madeley; Shylashri Shankar

Opis

This book traces religion and secularity in eleven countries not shaped by Western Christianity (Japan, China, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Iran, Russia, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, and Morocco), and how they parallel or diverge from Charles Taylor's grand narrative of the North Atlantic world, A Secular Age (2007). In all eleven cases, the state - enhanced by post-colonial and post-imperial legacies - highly determines religious experience, by variably regulating religious belief, practice, property, education, and/or law. Taylor's core condition of secularity - namely, legal permissibility and social acceptance of open religious unbelief (Secularity III) - is largely absent in these societies. The areas affected by state regulation, however, differ greatly. In India, Israel and most Muslim countries, questions of religious law are central to state regulation. But it is religious education and organization in China and church property and public practice in Russia that bear the brunt. This book explains these differences using the concept of 'differential burdening'.

Recenzje

'A Secular Age beyond the West is an important and impressively conceptualized volume. Too often non-Western experience is excluded from broad theoretical discussions of the nature of, and relationship between, religion, secularism, and culture … In this rich volume editors Mirjam Künkler, John Madeley, and Shylashri Shankar assemble an excellent group of scholars to explore the implications of Taylor's concepts in an array of countries beyond the West.' Frank Ravitch, Michigan State University College of Law

Spis treści

1. Introduction Mirjam Künkler and Shylashri Shankar; 2. Secularity I: varieties and dilemmas Philip Gorski; 3. The origins of secular public space: religion, education, and politics in modern China Zhe Ji; 4. The formation of secularism in Japan Helen Hardacre; 5. Law, legitimacy, and equality: the bureaucratization of religion and conditions of belief in Indonesia Mirjam Künkler; 6. Secularity and Hinduism's imaginaries in India Shylashri Shankar; 7. Secularity without secularism in Pakistan: the politics of Islam from Sir Syed to Zia Christophe Jaffrelot; 8. Charles Taylor's A Secular Age and secularization from below in Iran Nader Hashemi; 9. The politics of Jewish secularization in Israel Hanna Lerner; 10. A Kemalist secular age? Cultural politics and radical republicanism in Turkey Asli Bali; 11. Enigmatic variations: Russia and the three secularities John Madeley; 12. Piety, politics and identity: configurations of secularity in Egypt Gudrun Krämer; 13. The commander of the faithful and Moroccan secularity Jonathan Wyrtzen; 14. Conclusions: the prevalence of the 'marked state' Mirjam Künkler and John Madeley; 15. Afterword and corrections Charles Taylor.