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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462756403321

Titolo

Making sense of the secular : critical perspectives from Europe to Asia / / edited by Ranjan Ghosh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-11104-4

1-283-94246-1

1-136-27722-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in religion ; ; 24

Altri autori (Persone)

GhoshRanjan

Disciplina

211/.609

Soggetti

Secularism

Religions

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Europe -- pt. II. Asia.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers a wide range of critical perspectives on how secularism unfolds and has been made sense of across Europe and Asia. The book evaluates secularism as it exists today - its formations and discontents within contemporary discourses of power, terror, religion and cosmopolitanism - and the focus on these two continents gives critical attention to recent political and cultural developments where secularism and multiculturalism have impinged in deeply problematical ways, raising bristling ideological debates within the functioning of modern state bureaucracies. Examin