Secularity Contested: Religion, Identity and the Public Order in the Arab Middle East

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Multiple Secularities beyond the West: An Introduction 1
4. Part I: Religious Communities and the State: Fault-Lines of Religion and Secularity in South Asia
5. Secular Anxieties and Transnational Engagements in India 19
6. “Speaking” the Nation Secular: (E)merging Faces of India 39
7. Anti-caste Radicalism, Dalit Movements and the Many Critiques of Secular Nationalism in India 63
8. Part II: Nationalism, Islam and Democratization: Secular Dynamics in the Arab World
9. Deviance as a Phenomenon of Secularity: Islam and Deviants in Twentieth-century Egypt—A Search for Sociological Explanations 97
10. Secularity Contested: Religion, Identity and the Public Order in the Arab Middle East 121
11. Part III: Secularities in East Asia
12. Japanese Responses to Imperialist Secularization: The Postwar Movement to Restore Shinto in the Public Sphere 141
13. The Religious-Secular Divide at the Community Level in Contemporary Japan 169
14. Part IV: African Scenarios: (Post‐)Colonial Secularity vs. African Religiosity?
15. Moments of Insurgency: Christianity in South African Politics, from the 18th Century to Today 189
16. After Pentecostalism? Exploring Intellectualism, Secularization and Guiding Sentiments in Africa 215
17. Part V: The Sacred Secular: Secularities in post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe
18. Vulnerable Post-Soviet Secularities: Patterns and Dynamics in Russia and Beyond 241
19. Socialist Secularities: The Diversity of a Universalist Model 261
20. Conclusions
21. Between World Society and Multiple Modernities: Comparing Cultural Constructions of Secularity and Institutional Varieties of Secularism 285
22. List of Contributors 305
23. Index 311