Asia and the Secular

Francophone Perspectives in a Global Age
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-11-073800-1
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 247 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 493 g

Reihe: Religion and Its Others

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bourdeaux, Pascal

Dufourmont, Eddy

Laliberté, André

Madinier, Rémy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Alternative Glaubensformen Agnostizismus, Atheismus, Säkularer Humanismus

Über Autor(innen)

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