LEADER 03583nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910457814003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-26970-8 010 $a9786613269706 010 $a0-19-978302-0 035 $a(CKB)2550000000048030 035 $a(EBL)773291 035 $a(OCoLC)754582275 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000541131 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12235128 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000541131 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10498370 035 $a(PQKB)10038050 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC773291 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL773291 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10495720 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL326970 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000048030 100 $a20100917d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aSecularism and religion-making$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Markus Dressler and Arvind-Pal S. Mandair 210 $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (286 p.) 225 1 $aReflection and theory in the study of religion series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-978292-X 311 $a0-19-978294-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors List; 1. Introduction: Modernity, Religion-Making, and the Postsecular; 2. Imagining Religions in India: Colonialism and the Mapping of South Asian History and Culture; 3. Translations of Violence: Secularism and Religion-Making in the Discourses of Sikh Nationalism; 4. On the Apocalyptic Tones of Islam in Secular Time; 5. Secularism, ""Religious Violence,"" and the Liberal Imaginary; 6. The Politics of Spirituality: Liberalizing the Definition of Religion 327 $a7. Comparative Religion and the Cold War Transformation of Indo-Persian ""Mysticism"" into Liberal Islamic Modernity8. Apache Revelation: Making Indigenous Religion in the Legal Sphere; 9. Making Religion through Secularist Legal Discourse: The Case of Turkish Alevism; 10. Bloody Boundaries: Animal Sacrifice and the Labor of Religion; 11. Religion-Making and Its Failures: Turning Monasteries into Schools and Buddhism into a Religion in Colonial Burma; 12. Precarious Presences, Hallucinatory Times: Configurations of Religious Otherness in German Leitkulturalist Discourse; Index 330 $aThis book conceives of ""religion-making"" broadly as the multiple ways in which social and cultural phenomena are configured and reconfigured within the matrix of a world-religion discourse that is historically and semantically rooted in particular Western and predominantly Christian experiences, knowledges, and institutions. It investigates how religion is universalized and certain ideas, social formations, and practices rendered ""religious"" are thus integrated in and subordinated to very particular - mostly liberal-secular - assumptions about the relationship between history, politics, an 410 0$aReflection and theory in the study of religion. 606 $aSecularism 606 $aReligion and sociology 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSecularism. 615 0$aReligion and sociology. 676 $a211/.6 701 $aDressler$b Markus$0939334 701 $aMandair$b Arvind-pal Singh$0939335 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457814003321 996 $aSecularism and religion-making$92117358 997 $aUNINA