Secularism and Religion-Making

著者名：Dressler, Markus/Mandair, Arvind

Oxford University Press（2011/10/03発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9780199782949
• eISBN：9780199911295

Description

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.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Modernity, Religion-Making, and the PostsecularArvind Mandair, Markus Dressler2. Imagining Religions in India: Colonialism and the Mapping of South Asian History and CultureRichard King3. Translations of Violence: Secularism and Religion-Making in the Discourses of Sikh NationalismArvind Mandair4. On the Apocalyptic Tones of Islam in Secular TimeRuth Mas5. Secularism, "Religious Violence," and the Liberal ImaginaryBrian Goldstone6. The Politics of Spirituality: Liberalizing the Definition of ReligionKerry Mitchell7. Comparative Religion and the Cold War Transformation of Indo-Persian 'Mysticism' into Liberal Islamic ModernityRosemary Hicks8. Apache Revelation: Making Indigenous Religion in the Legal SphereGreg Johnson9. Making Religion through Secularist Legal Discourse: The Case of Turkish AlevismMarkus Dressler10. Bloody Boundaries: Animal Sacrifice and the Labor of ReligionMark Elmore11. Religion Making and Its Failures: Turning Monasteries into Schools and Buddhism in a Religion in Colonial BurmaAlicia Turner12. Precarious Presences, Hallucinatory Times: Configurations of Religious Otherness in German Leitkulturalist DiscourseMichael Nijhawan