Secularism and religion-making
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Secularism and religion-making
（AAR reflection and theory in the study of religion）
Oxford University Press, c2011
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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 Postsecular
Arvind Mandair, Markus Dressler
2. Imagining Religions in India: Colonialism and the Mapping of South Asian History and Culture
Richard King
3. Translations of Violence: Secularism and Religion-Making in the Discourses of Sikh Nationalism
Arvind Mandair
4. On the Apocalyptic Tones of Islam in Secular Time
Ruth Mas
5. Secularism, "Religious Violence," and the Liberal Imaginary
Brian Goldstone
6. The Politics of Spirituality: Liberalizing the Definition of Religion
Kerry Mitchell
7. Comparative Religion and the Cold War Transformation of Indo-Persian 'Mysticism' into Liberal Islamic Modernity
Rosemary Hicks
8. Apache Revelation: Making Indigenous Religion in the Legal Sphere
Greg Johnson
9. Making Religion through Secularist Legal Discourse: The Case of Turkish Alevism
Markus Dressler
10. Bloody Boundaries: Animal Sacrifice and the Labor of Religion
Mark Elmore
11. Religion Making and Its Failures: Turning Monasteries into Schools and Buddhism in a Religion in Colonial Burma
Alicia Turner
12. Precarious Presences, Hallucinatory Times: Configurations of Religious Otherness in German Leitkulturalist Discourse
Michael Nijhawan
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