Format:
Online-Ressource (x, 275 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780199783021
Series Statement:
AAR reflection and theory in the study of religion series
Content:
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 histo
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors List; 1. Introduction: Modernity, Religion-Making, and the Postsecular; 2. Imagining Religions in India: Colonialism and the Mapping of South Asian History and Culture; 3. Translations of Violence: Secularism and Religion-Making in the Discourses of Sikh Nationalism; 4. On the Apocalyptic Tones of Islam in Secular Time; 5. Secularism, "Religious Violence," and the Liberal Imaginary; 6. The Politics of Spirituality: Liberalizing the Definition of Religion
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7. Comparative Religion and the Cold War Transformation of Indo-Persian "Mysticism" into Liberal Islamic Modernity8. Apache Revelation: Making Indigenous Religion in the Legal Sphere; 9. Making Religion through Secularist Legal Discourse: The Case of Turkish Alevism; 10. Bloody Boundaries: Animal Sacrifice and the Labor of Religion; 11. Religion-Making and Its Failures: Turning Monasteries into Schools and Buddhism into a Religion in Colonial Burma; 12. Precarious Presences, Hallucinatory Times: Configurations of Religious Otherness in German Leitkulturalist Discourse; Index;
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199782949
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199782925
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Secularism and religion-making New York, NY [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2011 ISBN 9780199782949
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199782925
Language:
English
Keywords:
Religion
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Säkularismus
;
Islam
;
Buddhismus
;
Religion
;
Säkularismus
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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Author information:
Dreßler, Markus
