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Asia and the Secular: Francophone Perspectives in a Global Age

By Pascal , André , Rémy , Eddy , BOURDEAUX , Laliberté , Dufourmont , Madinier

Book information

Publisher
de Gruyter
Year
2022
ISBN
3110738007, 9783110738001
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5117741 bytes)
Series
Religion and its Others: Studies in Religion, Nonreligion and Secularity, 10
Pages
280\254
Time added
2022-11-07 11:05:58

Description

This volume looks at the secular state in the context of contemporary Asia and investigates whether there existed before modernity antecedents to the condition of secularity, understood as the differentiation of the sphere of the religious from other spheres of social life. The chapters presented in this book examine this issue in national contexts by looking at the historical formation of lexicons that defined the "secular", the "secular state," and "secularism". This approach requires paying attention to modern vernacular languages and their precedents in written traditions with often a very long tradition. This book presents three interpretive frameworks: multiple modernities, variety of secularisms, and typologies of post-colonial secular states.

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