Asia and the Secular: Francophone Perspectives in a Global Age: 10 (Religion and Its Others, 10) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3111523608 ISBN 13: 9783111523606

Publisher: De Gruyter, 2024

Synopsis

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.

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3111523608
• ISBN 13: 9783111523606
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Number of pages: 254
• Editor: Bourdeaux