Varieties of Secularism in Asia: Anthropological Explorations of Religion, Politics and the Spiritual

ISBN-13: 9781138787957 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 272 str.

Nils Ole Bubandt; Martijn Van Beek

Opis

This volume builds on the work of Talal Asad, Charles Taylor, and others who have engaged the issue of secularism(s) and in socio-political life. It seeks to examine theories of secularism/secularity and then examine concrete ethnographic cases in order to further the theoretical discussion.

Spis treści

1. Varieties of Secularism - in Asia and in Theory, Nils Bubandt and Martijn van Beek   2. Mimetic Re-enchantment: The Contemporary Chinese State and Tibetan Religious Leadership, Robert Barnett   3. Unyoking the Political from the Religious: Secularisation and Democratisation in the Tibetan Community in Exile, Trine Brox   4. Enlightened Democracy: Normative Secularism and Spiritual Authority on the Margins of Indian Politics, Martijn van Beek   5. Secularism and the Kashmir Dispute, Martin Sökefeld   6. Laiklik and Legitimation in Rural Eastern, Xinjiang Chris Hann   7. Being Muslim the Ironic Way. Secularism, Religion and Irony in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan, Maria Louw   8. Sectarian Secularism. The Role of Secularities in Bahrain, Thomas Fibiger   9. Shadows of Secularism: Money Politics, Spirit Politics, and the Law in an Indonesian Election, Nils Bubandt   10. The Rebel and the Diplomat: Revolutionary Spirits, Sacred Legitimation, and Democracy in Timor-Leste, Maj Nygaard-Christensen   11. Secularity and Religiosity: Holy Spaces and the Battle for Administrative Control over Land in Bangkok, Michael Herzfeld

O autorze

Nils Bubandt and Martijn van Beek are both affiliated to the Department of Anthropology and Ethnography at Aarhus University, Denmark.