Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 422 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781108278195
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in social theory, religion, and politics
Content:
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'
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108417716
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108405614
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781108417716
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe A secular age beyond the West Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018 ISBN 9781108417716
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Asien
;
Mittlerer Osten
;
Naher Osten
;
Nordafrika
;
Säkularismus
;
Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1017/9781108278195
URL:
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Author information:
Künkler, Mirjam 1977-
