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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Contents
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Instructions for Use
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About the Editors
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Global Secularity: Introduction to the Series
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Christoph Kleine, Monika Wohlrab-Sahr and Florian Zemmin

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Mapping the Academic Debate: Introduction to Volume 1
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1 Concepts, Taxonomies, and Epistemologies – Between Particularism and Universalism
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Introduction
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1 Howard P. Becker: Processes of Secularisation (1932)
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Johannes Duschka

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2 Johannes C. Hoekendijk: Secularism (1961)
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Johannes Duschka

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3 Peter L. Berger: The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion (1967)
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Monika Wohlrab-Sahr

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4 Okot p’Bitek: African Religions in Western Scholarship (1971)
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Magnus Echtler

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5 Syed M. N. al-Attas: Islam and Secularism (1978)
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Florian Zemmin

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6 Tamaru Noriyoshi: The Problem of Secularization (1979)
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Christoph Kleine

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7 Ikado Fujio: The Search for a Definition of Secularization: Toward a General Theory (1983)
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Christoph Kleine

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8 Azzam Tamimi: The Origins of Arab Secularism (2000)
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Monika Wohlrab-Sahr

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9 Wajih Kawtharani: Religion and Politics in Islamic Societies (2001)
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Florian Zemmin

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10 Timothy Fitzgerald: Religion and the Secular in Japan (2003)
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Christoph Kleine

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11 Stephen Ellis and Gerrie ter Haar: Religion and Politics: Taking African Epistemologies Seriously (2007)
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Magnus Echtler

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12 Reinhard Schulze: Islam as a Political Religion (2010)
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Florian Zemmin

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13 Dmitry A. Uzlaner: The Soviet Model of Secularisation (2010)
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Sebastian Rimestad

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14 S. N. Balagangadhara: On the Dark Side of the “Secular” (2014)
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Monika Wohlrab-Sahr

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15 Matthew Engelke: Secular Shadows: African, Immanent, Post-colonial (2015)
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Magnus Echtler

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16 Jason A. Josephson-Storm: The Superstition, Secularism, and Religion Trinary: Or Re-Theorizing Secularism (2017)
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Christoph Kleine

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17 Markus Dreßler: Religionization and Secularity (2019)
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Johannes Duschka

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18 Li Xiangping: Explaining ‘Legitimacy’ and ‘Sacrality’ (2019)
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Yee Lak Elliot Lee

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19 Florian Zemmin: Secularism, Secularity and Islamic Reformism (2019)
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Florian Zemmin

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20 Aziz al-Azmeh: Secularism in the Arab World (2020)
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Florian Zemmin

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21 Christoph Kleine and Monika Wohlrab- Sahr: Comparative Secularities (2020)
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Christoph Kleine and Monika Wohlrab-Sahr

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22 Mitsutoshi Horii: Eurocentrism and Anachronism of Multiple Secularities (2021)
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Christoph Kleine

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2 Contingencies, Trajectories and Entanglements – Between Continuity and Rupture
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Introduction
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23 Louis Dumont: The Conception of Kingship in Ancient India (1962)
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Monika Wohlrab-Sahr

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24 Nurcholish Madjid: On Secularisation (1972, 1987)
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Sahiron Syamsuddin and Johannes Duschka

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25 Iqtidar A. Khan: The Secular State in India: Historical Perspective (1976)
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Johannes Duschka

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26 Harold J. Berman: Law and Revolution. The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition (1985)
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Monika Wohlrab-Sahr

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27 Triloki N. Madan: Secularism in Its Place (1987)
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Johannes Duschka

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28 Peter van der Veer: The Secular Production of Religion (1995)
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Johannes Duschka

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29 Abdolkarim Soroush: Reason, Freedom and Democracy in Islam (2000)
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Sana Chavoshian

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30 Wang Gungwu: Secular China (2003)
286
Hubert Seiwert

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31 Ian Reader: Ideology, Academic Inventions and Mystical Anthropology (2004)
298
Christoph Kleine

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32 José Casanova: Rethinking Secularization: A Global Comparative Perspective (2006)
304
Monika Wohlrab-Sahr

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33 Miklós Tomka: Is Conventional Sociology of Religion Able to Deal with Differences between Eastern and Western European Developments? (2006)
312
Monika Wohlrab-Sahr

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34 Jean Baubérot: Cultural Transfer and National Identity in French Laicity (2008)
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Monika Wohlrab-Sahr

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35 Jörg Stolz: Secularization Theories in the Twenty-first Century (2020)
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Monika Wohlrab-Sahr

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36 Kristen Ghodsee: Symphonic Secularism (2009)
337
Wolfgang Höpken

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37 Rajeev Bhargava: The Secular Ideal Before Secularism (2010)
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Monika Wohlrab-Sahr

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38 David Biale: Not in the Heavens. The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought (2011)
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Monika Wohlrab-Sahr

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39 Shimazono Susumu: Japanese Secularisation and New Spirituality: Perspectives of the Sociology of Religion and Comparative Culture and Civilisation (2011)
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Christoph Kleine

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40 Charles Taylor: Western Secularity (2011)
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Florian Zemmin

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41 Andrey Shishkov: Desecularization in Post-Soviet Russia (2012)
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Sebastian Rimestad

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42 Monika Wohlrab-Sahr and Marian Burchardt: Multiple Secularities: Toward a Cultural Sociology of Secular Modernities (2012)
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Monika Wohlrab-Sahr

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43 Peter Beyer: Questioning the Secular/ Religious Divide in a Post-Westphalian World (2013)
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Monika Wohlrab-Sahr

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44 ʿAzmi Bishara: Religion and Secularity in Historical Context (2013)
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Housamedden Darwish

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45 Isomae Jun’ichi: Religion, Secularity, and the Articulation of the “Indigenous” in Modernizing Japan (2013)
450
Christoph Kleine

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46 Sudipta Kaviraj: Languages of Secularity (2013)
457
Johannes Duschka

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47 Gudrun Krämer: Modern but Not Secular (2013)
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Florian Zemmin

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48 Heiner Roetz: The Influence of Foreign Knowledge on Eighteenth Century European Secularism (2013)
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Christoph Kleine

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49 Juan C. Esquivel: Laicity in Argentina (2017)
492
Juan Cruz Esquivel and Johannes Duschka

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50 Christoph Kleine: Formations of Secularity in Ancient Japan? (2019)
499
Christoph Kleine

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51 Neguin Yavari: The Political Regard in Medieval Islamic Thought (2019)
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Monika Wohlrab-Sahr

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3 Power, Ideology and the State
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Introduction
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52 David Martin: Towards Eliminating the Concept of Secularization (1965)
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53 Thomas Luckmann: Secularization – A Contemporary Myth (1969)
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Monika Wohlrab-Sahr

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54 Remir A. Lopatkin: Towards a Society Free from Religion (1970)
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Sebastian Rimestad

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55 John Milbank: Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason (1990)
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Monika Wohlrab-Sahr and Florian Zemmin

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56 Talal Asad: Formations of the Secular (2003)
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Johannes Duschka

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57 Russell T. McCutcheon: On the Co-Dependency of the Religious and the Secular (2007)
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Christoph Kleine

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58 Abdullahi A. An-Naʿim: Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shariʿa (2009)
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Florian Zemmin

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59 Humeira Iqtidar: Secularism and Secularisation (2012)
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Johannes Duschka

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60 Sadia Saeed: Desecularisation as an Instituted Process (2013)
599
Johannes Duschka

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61 Leo Igwe: The Untold Story of Africa’s Secular Tradition (2014)
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Magnus Echtler

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62 Ian Hunter: Secularization – The Birth of a Modern Combat Concept (2015)
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Monika Wohlrab-Sahr

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63 Hayashi Makoto: Not Secularisation, but Laicisation – Religious Freedom in Modern Japan (2016)
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Christoph Kleine

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64 Saba Mahmood: Religious Difference in a Secular Age (2016)
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Johannes Duschka

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4 Prognosis and Projection
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65 William E. Connolly: Why I Am Not a Secularist (1999)
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Monika Wohlrab-Sahr

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66 Guy Ben-Porat: A State of Holiness: Rethinking Israeli Secularism (2000)
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Monika Wohlrab-Sahr

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67 Aleksandr Kyrlezhev: The Postsecular Age (2004)
671
Sebastian Rimestad

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68 Philip S. Gorski and Ateş Altınordu: After Secularization? (2008)
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Monika Wohlrab-Sahr

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69 Jürgen Habermas: Notes on Post-Secular Society (2008)
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Johannes Duschka

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70 Ingolf U. Dalferth: Post-Secular Society: Christianity and the Dialectics of the Secular (2010)
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Christoph Kleine

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71 Nilüfer Göle: Manifestations of the Religious- Secular Divide: Self, State, and the Public Sphere (2010)
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Monika Wohlrab-Sahr

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72 Aamir R. Mufti: Why I Am Not a Postsecularist (2013)
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Johannes Duschka

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73 Sherman A. Jackson: The Islamic Secular (2017)
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Florian Zemmin

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Secularism; Global History

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Volume I Mapping the Academic Debate

Overview

About this book

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Contents

Instructions for Use

About the Editors

Global Secularity: Introduction to the Series

Mapping the Academic Debate: Introduction to Volume 1

Introduction

1 Howard P. Becker: Processes of Secularisation (1932)

2 Johannes C. Hoekendijk: Secularism (1961)

3 Peter L. Berger: The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion (1967)

4 Okot p’Bitek: African Religions in Western Scholarship (1971)

5 Syed M. N. al-Attas: Islam and Secularism (1978)

6 Tamaru Noriyoshi: The Problem of Secularization (1979)

7 Ikado Fujio: The Search for a Definition of Secularization: Toward a General Theory (1983)

8 Azzam Tamimi: The Origins of Arab Secularism (2000)

9 Wajih Kawtharani: Religion and Politics in Islamic Societies (2001)

10 Timothy Fitzgerald: Religion and the Secular in Japan (2003)

11 Stephen Ellis and Gerrie ter Haar: Religion and Politics: Taking African Epistemologies Seriously (2007)

12 Reinhard Schulze: Islam as a Political Religion (2010)

13 Dmitry A. Uzlaner: The Soviet Model of Secularisation (2010)

14 S. N. Balagangadhara: On the Dark Side of the “Secular” (2014)

15 Matthew Engelke: Secular Shadows: African, Immanent, Post-colonial (2015)

16 Jason A. Josephson-Storm: The Superstition, Secularism, and Religion Trinary: Or Re-Theorizing Secularism (2017)

17 Markus Dreßler: Religionization and Secularity (2019)

18 Li Xiangping: Explaining ‘Legitimacy’ and ‘Sacrality’ (2019)

19 Florian Zemmin: Secularism, Secularity and Islamic Reformism (2019)

20 Aziz al-Azmeh: Secularism in the Arab World (2020)

21 Christoph Kleine and Monika Wohlrab- Sahr: Comparative Secularities (2020)

22 Mitsutoshi Horii: Eurocentrism and Anachronism of Multiple Secularities (2021)

Introduction

23 Louis Dumont: The Conception of Kingship in Ancient India (1962)

24 Nurcholish Madjid: On Secularisation (1972, 1987)

25 Iqtidar A. Khan: The Secular State in India: Historical Perspective (1976)

26 Harold J. Berman: Law and Revolution. The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition (1985)

27 Triloki N. Madan: Secularism in Its Place (1987)

28 Peter van der Veer: The Secular Production of Religion (1995)

29 Abdolkarim Soroush: Reason, Freedom and Democracy in Islam (2000)

30 Wang Gungwu: Secular China (2003)

31 Ian Reader: Ideology, Academic Inventions and Mystical Anthropology (2004)

32 José Casanova: Rethinking Secularization: A Global Comparative Perspective (2006)

33 Miklós Tomka: Is Conventional Sociology of Religion Able to Deal with Differences between Eastern and Western European Developments? (2006)

34 Jean Baubérot: Cultural Transfer and National Identity in French Laicity (2008)

35 Jörg Stolz: Secularization Theories in the Twenty-first Century (2020)

36 Kristen Ghodsee: Symphonic Secularism (2009)

37 Rajeev Bhargava: The Secular Ideal Before Secularism (2010)

38 David Biale: Not in the Heavens. The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought (2011)

39 Shimazono Susumu: Japanese Secularisation and New Spirituality: Perspectives of the Sociology of Religion and Comparative Culture and Civilisation (2011)

40 Charles Taylor: Western Secularity (2011)

41 Andrey Shishkov: Desecularization in Post-Soviet Russia (2012)

42 Monika Wohlrab-Sahr and Marian Burchardt: Multiple Secularities: Toward a Cultural Sociology of Secular Modernities (2012)

43 Peter Beyer: Questioning the Secular/ Religious Divide in a Post-Westphalian World (2013)

44 ʿAzmi Bishara: Religion and Secularity in Historical Context (2013)

45 Isomae Jun’ichi: Religion, Secularity, and the Articulation of the “Indigenous” in Modernizing Japan (2013)

46 Sudipta Kaviraj: Languages of Secularity (2013)

47 Gudrun Krämer: Modern but Not Secular (2013)

48 Heiner Roetz: The Influence of Foreign Knowledge on Eighteenth Century European Secularism (2013)

49 Juan C. Esquivel: Laicity in Argentina (2017)

50 Christoph Kleine: Formations of Secularity in Ancient Japan? (2019)

51 Neguin Yavari: The Political Regard in Medieval Islamic Thought (2019)

Introduction

52 David Martin: Towards Eliminating the Concept of Secularization (1965)

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

54 Remir A. Lopatkin: Towards a Society Free from Religion (1970)

55 John Milbank: Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason (1990)

56 Talal Asad: Formations of the Secular (2003)

57 Russell T. McCutcheon: On the Co-Dependency of the Religious and the Secular (2007)

58 Abdullahi A. An-Naʿim: Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shariʿa (2009)

59 Humeira Iqtidar: Secularism and Secularisation (2012)

60 Sadia Saeed: Desecularisation as an Instituted Process (2013)

61 Leo Igwe: The Untold Story of Africa’s Secular Tradition (2014)

62 Ian Hunter: Secularization – The Birth of a Modern Combat Concept (2015)

63 Hayashi Makoto: Not Secularisation, but Laicisation – Religious Freedom in Modern Japan (2016)

64 Saba Mahmood: Religious Difference in a Secular Age (2016)

Introduction

65 William E. Connolly: Why I Am Not a Secularist (1999)