Making Sense of the Secular: Critical Perspectives from Europe to Asia (Routledge Studies in Religion) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138108537 ISBN 13: 9781138108530

Verlag: Routledge, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

This book offers a wide range of critical perspectives on how secularism unfolds and has been made sense of across Europe and Asia. The book evaluates secularism as it exists today - its formations and discontents within contemporary discourses of power, terror, religion and cosmopolitanism - and the focus on these two continents gives critical attention to recent political and cultural developments where secularism and multiculturalism have impinged in deeply problematical ways, raising bristling ideological debates within the functioning of modern state bureaucracies. Examining issues as controversial as the state of Islam in Europe and China's encounters with religion, secularism, and modernization provides incisive and broader perspectives on how we negotiate secularism within the contemporary threats of terrorism and other forms of fundamentalism and state-politics.

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Ranjan Ghosh teaches in the Department of English at the University of North Bengal, India. He is widely published in leading international journals like Oxford Literary Review, History and Theory, Parallax, Rethinking History, Comparatist, Comparative Drama, South Asia, SubStance, symploke, Angelaki, and others. He is author/editor of several books, including Globalizing Dissent (Routledge, 2008), Edward Said: The Literary, Social and the Political World (Routledge, 2009), A Lover's Quarrel with the Past: Romance, Representation, Reading (2012). His website is: http: //www.ranjanghosh.com

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1138108537
• ISBN 13: 9781138108530
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 234
• Herausgeber: Ghosh Ranjan
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