Secularism and Religion-Making by Markus Dressler (English) Paperback Book

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This book investigates the universalization of religious and secular knowledges that emerged in their particular modern forms originally in the Christian West. It it an attempt to explore the epistemological grounds and political implications of the formation and codependency of 'secular' and 'religious' discourses and practices.

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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 inand subordinated to very particular - mostly liberal-secular - assumptions about the relationship between history, politics, and religion. The individual contributions, written bya 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.

Author Biography

Markus Dressler has published extensively on Turkish Alevism. His further interests include the sociology and politics of Islam in Turkey, nationalist Turkish historiography, and Sufism in the West. Theoretically, his research engages in the work of concepts in the study of religion and Islam, as well as the interaction between religion, secularism, and nationalism.Arvind-Pal S. Mandair is S.B.S.C. Associate Professor of Sikh Studies at the University of Michigan. His recent books include Religion and the Specter of the West and Teachings of the Sikh Gurus. He is a founding editor of the journal Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture and Theory and Assistant editor of Culture and Religion.

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

Review

"This is an excellent collection of essays. Its unusual perspective allows the talented contributors to explore not just the concept and practice of secularism, but also the development of religion in our time. Anyone interested in this theme will profit from reading this book."-- Talal Asad, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Long 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 inand 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 oftranslation 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.

Review Text

"This is an excellent collection of essays. Its unusual perspective allows the talented contributors to explore not just the concept and practice of secularism, but also the development of religion in our time. Anyone interested in this theme will profit from reading this book."-- Talal Asad, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Review Quote

"This is an excellent collection of essays. Its unusual perspective allows the talented contributors to explore not just the concept and practice of secularism, but also the development of religion in our time. Anyone interested in this theme will profit from reading this book."-- Talal Asad, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York

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The authors regularly attend:* AAR annual conferences*Association for Asian Studies Conference*Annual Conference on South AsiaSelling point: Interdisciplinary approachesSelling point: New theoretical approach

Details ISBN019978292X Author Arvind Mandair Series AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion Language English ISBN-10 019978292X ISBN-13 9780199782925 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 211.6 Year 2011 Illustrations black & white illustrations Short Title SECULARISM & RELIGION-MAKING Pages 288 Position S.B.S.C. Assistant Professor in Sikh Studies Imprint Oxford University Press Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Affiliation S.B.S.C. Assistant Professor in Sikh Studies, University of Michigan UK Release Date 2011-10-20 Publication Date 2011-10-20 AU Release Date 2011-10-20 NZ Release Date 2011-10-20 US Release Date 2011-10-20 Publisher Oxford University Press Inc Alternative 9780199782949 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this

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