Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I Premodern Boundary Negotiations: Self-Distinctions of the Religious Sphere
5. Dynamics of Differentiation from Charlemagne to Dante. Medieval Christian Debates on Religion and Politics beyond the Model of a “Separation of Church and State” 15
6. Secularity and Differentiation in Late Antiquity. The Case of Augustine of Hippo 51
7. Monasticism, Differentiation and Secularization: Talcott Parsons and the Catholic ‘Monastic Movement’ in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 79
8. Negotiating the Boundaries between Religion and Science in the Abbasid Empire 105
9. Religious and Secular in Premodern Islam and Christianity 125
10. Part II Colonial Boundaries: Religion, Culture, and “Middle Things”
11. King, Messiah, and Culture in the Making of Zulu Secularity 157
12. The “Middle Things”. Differentiating between the Religious Spheres in Indian and African Mission Contexts in the Nineteenth Century 189
13. Beyond Non-Catholic/Catholic (Luong/Giao) Separation: Missionary Expansion and Divergent Manifestations of Religious Differentiation in Colonial Vietnam 213
14. Part III Competing Epistemes: Lessons Learned From Asia
15. The Autonomy of Science vis-a-vis Religion: Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome as a Theoretical Counter-Narrative to the Western Master Narrative of Functional Differentiation 239
16. Global Translations: Conceptualizing Differentiations Between ‘Religion’ and ‘Science’ in Thailand and the Philippines in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 271
17. Demarcating Religion: On the Varying Ways of Conceptualizing Social Differentiation in Japanese History 301
18. Rethinking the Place of Religion and Worldviews in Differentiation Theory: A Historical Comparison between Chinese and European Societies 329
19. Part IV Programmatic Proposals: Differentiation Theory and the Sociology of Religion and Secularity
20. The Fragmentation of the Sacred: An Alternative Narrative of Western Modernity 359
21. Rigid Differentiation Theory and Flexible Sociology of Religion? 379
22. After Autonomy. Relationships between Art and Religion in Nineteenth Century Germany and their Implications for Differentiation Theory 407
23. Beyond Normative Binaries: Neutral Zones as Precursors and Starting Points of Secularity 437
24. The Authors 467