53 Thomas Luckmann: Secularization – A Contemporary Myth (1969)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Instructions for Use XI
4. About the Editors XIII
5. Global Secularity: Introduction to the Series XV
6. Mapping the Academic Debate: Introduction to Volume 1 1
7. 1 Concepts, Taxonomies, and Epistemologies – Between Particularism and Universalism
8. Introduction 7
9. 1 Howard P. Becker: Processes of Secularisation (1932) 13
10. 2 Johannes C. Hoekendijk: Secularism (1961) 23
11. 3 Peter L. Berger: The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion (1967) 30
12. 4 Okot p’Bitek: African Religions in Western Scholarship (1971) 33
13. 5 Syed M. N. al-Attas: Islam and Secularism (1978) 43
14. 6 Tamaru Noriyoshi: The Problem of Secularization (1979) 50
15. 7 Ikado Fujio: The Search for a Definition of Secularization: Toward a General Theory (1983) 59
16. 8 Azzam Tamimi: The Origins of Arab Secularism (2000) 64
17. 9 Wajih Kawtharani: Religion and Politics in Islamic Societies (2001) 68
18. 10 Timothy Fitzgerald: Religion and the Secular in Japan (2003) 77
19. 11 Stephen Ellis and Gerrie ter Haar: Religion and Politics: Taking African Epistemologies Seriously (2007) 87
20. 12 Reinhard Schulze: Islam as a Political Religion (2010) 95
21. 13 Dmitry A. Uzlaner: The Soviet Model of Secularisation (2010) 99
22. 14 S. N. Balagangadhara: On the Dark Side of the “Secular” (2014) 109
23. 15 Matthew Engelke: Secular Shadows: African, Immanent, Post-colonial (2015) 121
24. 16 Jason A. Josephson-Storm: The Superstition, Secularism, and Religion Trinary: Or Re-Theorizing Secularism (2017) 133
25. 17 Markus Dreßler: Religionization and Secularity (2019) 141
26. 18 Li Xiangping: Explaining ‘Legitimacy’ and ‘Sacrality’ (2019) 151
27. 19 Florian Zemmin: Secularism, Secularity and Islamic Reformism (2019) 169
28. 20 Aziz al-Azmeh: Secularism in the Arab World (2020) 176
29. 21 Christoph Kleine and Monika Wohlrab- Sahr: Comparative Secularities (2020) 189
30. 22 Mitsutoshi Horii: Eurocentrism and Anachronism of Multiple Secularities (2021) 200
31. 2 Contingencies, Trajectories and Entanglements – Between Continuity and Rupture
32. Introduction 211
33. 23 Louis Dumont: The Conception of Kingship in Ancient India (1962) 221
34. 24 Nurcholish Madjid: On Secularisation (1972, 1987) 234
35. 25 Iqtidar A. Khan: The Secular State in India: Historical Perspective (1976) 247
36. 26 Harold J. Berman: Law and Revolution. The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition (1985) 257
37. 27 Triloki N. Madan: Secularism in Its Place (1987) 260
38. 28 Peter van der Veer: The Secular Production of Religion (1995) 274
39. 29 Abdolkarim Soroush: Reason, Freedom and Democracy in Islam (2000) 283
40. 30 Wang Gungwu: Secular China (2003) 286
41. 31 Ian Reader: Ideology, Academic Inventions and Mystical Anthropology (2004) 298
42. 32 José Casanova: Rethinking Secularization: A Global Comparative Perspective (2006) 304
43. 33 Miklós Tomka: Is Conventional Sociology of Religion Able to Deal with Differences between Eastern and Western European Developments? (2006) 312
44. 34 Jean Baubérot: Cultural Transfer and National Identity in French Laicity (2008) 321
45. 35 Jörg Stolz: Secularization Theories in the Twenty-first Century (2020) 324
46. 36 Kristen Ghodsee: Symphonic Secularism (2009) 337
47. 37 Rajeev Bhargava: The Secular Ideal Before Secularism (2010) 353
48. 38 David Biale: Not in the Heavens. The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought (2011) 369
49. 39 Shimazono Susumu: Japanese Secularisation and New Spirituality: Perspectives of the Sociology of Religion and Comparative Culture and Civilisation (2011) 383
50. 40 Charles Taylor: Western Secularity (2011) 397
51. 41 Andrey Shishkov: Desecularization in Post-Soviet Russia (2012) 399
52. 42 Monika Wohlrab-Sahr and Marian Burchardt: Multiple Secularities: Toward a Cultural Sociology of Secular Modernities (2012) 407
53. 43 Peter Beyer: Questioning the Secular/ Religious Divide in a Post-Westphalian World (2013) 419
54. 44 ʿAzmi Bishara: Religion and Secularity in Historical Context (2013) 434
55. 45 Isomae Jun’ichi: Religion, Secularity, and the Articulation of the “Indigenous” in Modernizing Japan (2013) 450
56. 46 Sudipta Kaviraj: Languages of Secularity (2013) 457
57. 47 Gudrun Krämer: Modern but Not Secular (2013) 472
58. 48 Heiner Roetz: The Influence of Foreign Knowledge on Eighteenth Century European Secularism (2013) 480
59. 49 Juan C. Esquivel: Laicity in Argentina (2017) 492
60. 50 Christoph Kleine: Formations of Secularity in Ancient Japan? (2019) 499
61. 51 Neguin Yavari: The Political Regard in Medieval Islamic Thought (2019) 509
62. 3 Power, Ideology and the State
63. Introduction 523
64. 52 David Martin: Towards Eliminating the Concept of Secularization (1965) 531
65. 53 Thomas Luckmann: Secularization – A Contemporary Myth (1969) 534
66. 54 Remir A. Lopatkin: Towards a Society Free from Religion (1970) 543
67. 55 John Milbank: Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason (1990) 553
68. 56 Talal Asad: Formations of the Secular (2003) 562
69. 57 Russell T. McCutcheon: On the Co-Dependency of the Religious and the Secular (2007) 573
70. 58 Abdullahi A. An-Naʿim: Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shariʿa (2009) 581
71. 59 Humeira Iqtidar: Secularism and Secularisation (2012) 584
72. 60 Sadia Saeed: Desecularisation as an Instituted Process (2013) 599
73. 61 Leo Igwe: The Untold Story of Africa’s Secular Tradition (2014) 614
74. 62 Ian Hunter: Secularization – The Birth of a Modern Combat Concept (2015) 621
75. 63 Hayashi Makoto: Not Secularisation, but Laicisation – Religious Freedom in Modern Japan (2016) 628
76. 64 Saba Mahmood: Religious Difference in a Secular Age (2016) 631
77. 4 Prognosis and Projection
78. Introduction 647
79. 65 William E. Connolly: Why I Am Not a Secularist (1999) 652
80. 66 Guy Ben-Porat: A State of Holiness: Rethinking Israeli Secularism (2000) 657
81. 67 Aleksandr Kyrlezhev: The Postsecular Age (2004) 671
82. 68 Philip S. Gorski and Ateş Altınordu: After Secularization? (2008) 683
83. 69 Jürgen Habermas: Notes on Post-Secular Society (2008) 690
84. 70 Ingolf U. Dalferth: Post-Secular Society: Christianity and the Dialectics of the Secular (2010) 699
85. 71 Nilüfer Göle: Manifestations of the Religious- Secular Divide: Self, State, and the Public Sphere (2010) 706
86. 72 Aamir R. Mufti: Why I Am Not a Postsecularist (2013) 713
87. 73 Sherman A. Jackson: The Islamic Secular (2017) 720