Asia and the Secular (Paperback)

Pascal Bourdeaux

ISBN 10: 3111523608 / ISBN 13: 9783111523606

Verlag: De Gruyter, Berlin, 2024

Beschreibung

Paperback. This volume looks at the secular state in the context of contemporary Asia and investigates whether there existed before modernity antecedents to the condition of secularity, understood as the differentiation of the sphere of the religious from other spheres of social life. The chapters presented in this book examine this issue in national contexts by looking at the historical formation of lexicons that defined the "secular", the "secular state," and "secularism". This approach requires paying attention to modern vernacular languages and their precedents in written traditions with often a very long tradition. This book presents three interpretive frameworks: multiple modernities, variety of secularisms, and typologies of post-colonial secular states. The collected volume looks at a variety of secular states from various Asian perspectives and traces their origins in distinctive trajectories shaped over centuries by religious traditions, languages, social and political structures, interactions an Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9783111523606

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Asia and the Secular (Paperback)
• Verlag: De Gruyter, Berlin
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3111523608
• ISBN-13: 9783111523606
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: new

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Inhaltsangabe

This volume looks at the secular state in the context of contemporary Asia and investigates whether there existed before modernity antecedents to the condition of secularity, understood as the differentiation of the sphere of the religious from other spheres of social life. The chapters presented in this book examine this issue in national contexts by looking at the historical formation of lexicons that defined the "secular", the "secular state," and "secularism". This approach requires paying attention to modern vernacular languages and their precedents in written traditions with often a very long tradition. This book presents three interpretive frameworks: multiple modernities, variety of secularisms, and typologies of post-colonial secular states.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

P. Bourdeaux, EPHE, E. Dufourmont, Université de Bordeaux-Montaigne, A. Laliberté, University of Ottawa and R. Madinier, CASE.

P. Bourdeaux, EPHE, E. Dufourmont, Université de Bordeaux-Montaigne, A. Laliberté, University of Ottawa und R. Madinier, CASE.