ISBN:
9781108278195
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 422 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in social theory, religion, and politics
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als A secular age beyond the West
DDC:
211/.609
Keywords:
Secularism
;
Säkularisierung
;
Laizismus
;
Staat
;
Religion
;
Einflussgröße
;
Religionsgemeinschaft
;
Secularism
;
Asien
;
Naher Osten
;
Mittlerer Osten
;
Nordafrika
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Asien
;
Mittlerer Osten
;
Naher Osten
;
Nordafrika
;
Säkularismus
Abstract:
This book traces religion and secularity in eleven countries not shaped by Western Christianity (Japan, China, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Iran, Russia, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, and Morocco), and how they parallel or diverge from Charles Taylor's grand narrative of the North Atlantic world, A Secular Age (2007). In all eleven cases, the state - enhanced by post-colonial and post-imperial legacies - highly determines religious experience, by variably regulating religious belief, practice, property, education, and/or law. Taylor's core condition of secularity - namely, legal permissibility and social acceptance of open religious unbelief (Secularity III) - is largely absent in these societies. The areas affected by state regulation, however, differ greatly. In India, Israel and most Muslim countries, questions of religious law are central to state regulation. But it is religious education and organization in China and church property and public practice in Russia that bear the brunt. This book explains these differences using the concept of 'differential burdening'
DOI:
10.1017/9781108278195
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