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Secularism and Religion-Making

Secularism and Religion-Making

Dressler, Markus
Mandair, Arvind

Paperback

Series: AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion

Religion General General Sociology

ISBN10: 019978292X
ISBN13: 9780199782925
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Oct 3 2011
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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 history, politics, and religion.

The individual contributions, written by a new generation of scholars with decisively interdisciplinary approaches, examine the processes of translation and globalization of historically specific concepts and practices of religion - and its dialectical counterpart, the secular - into new contexts. This volume contributes to the relatively new field of thought that aspires to unravel the thoroughly intertwined relationships between religion and secularism as modern concepts.

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