Volume I Mapping the Academic Debate

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Volume I Mapping the Academic Debate

Edited by: Johannes Duschka , Christoph Kleine , Monika Wohlrab-Sahr and Florian Zemmin
Funded by: Universität Leipzig

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Global Secularity. A Sourcebook

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2024

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This volume maps the international academic debate on secularity. It places seminal contributions from within ‘Western’ academia alongside less well-known texts from various parts of the world; in several cases this is the first time that they have been translated into English. The volume demonstrates that the academic debate on secularity was and is a global debate, with contributions from many regions. The collected texts relate to each other either directly or indirectly by referring to similar arguments – whether reinforcing or criticising them – and thus create a discourse. When speaking of global secularity, we therefore do not insinuate a uniform ‘world secularity’ resulting from the alleged global diffusion of ‘Western’ norms, ideas and concepts. It is rather a web of relations that is constituted via various different references. These references are not evenly distributed: the development in ‘the West’ is often the point of reference to which positions from other regions relate, to which they connect, or from which they distance themselves. But the references are not completely unidirectional: We also present texts from Europe that underline the multidirectionality of the process, even early on. Thereby, the volume offers the reader the material with which to trace these global exchanges and references.

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

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Secularism; Global History

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