LEADER 04430nam 22006015 450 001 9910520088003321 005 20230810173952.0 010 $a9783030875169 010 $a3030875164 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-87516-9 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6838660 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6838660 035 $a(CKB)20275214500041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-87516-9 035 $a(Perlego)4533340 035 $a(EXLCZ)9920275214500041 100 $a20211122d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcz#---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$a'Religion' and 'Secular' Categories in Sociology $eDecolonizing the Modern Myth /$fby Mitsutoshi Horii 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (272 pages) 311 08$a9783030875152 311 08$a3030875156 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- Theoretical Background -- 'Religion' in Social Theory -- 'The Secular' in Sociology -- Social Construction of Secularisation Thesis -- Textbooks and Other Introductory Materials -- 'Religion' in Liquid Late Modernity of Risk Society -- Conclusion: Social Theory and Sociology after Deconstructing the Religious-Secular Binary. 330 $aMitsutoshi Horii is Professor at Shumei University in Japan, and Principal of Chaucer College, UK. Informed by the 'critical religion' perspective in religious studies and postcolonial self-reflection in sociology, this book interrogates the ideas of 'religion' and 'the secular' in social theory and sociology. It argues that as long as social theory and sociological discourse embeds the religion-secular distinction and locates itself on the 'secular' side of the binary, sociology will continue to serve the very ideologies it tries to subvert - namely Western modernity/coloniality. Horii raises fundamental epistemological questions and deep ontological issues in the field of the sociology of religion. Innovative and provoking, the book will inspire the reader to discuss and question established concepts from new perspectives." -Per Pettersson, Professor of Sociology of Religion, Karlstad University, Sweden "This is a superb book that ... calls into question sociology's own understanding of itself as secular and 'rational,' distinguished from the 'non-rational' understandings of those it presents as other." -John Holmwood, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Nottingham, UK. "This book is a valuable contribution to the critical demystification of general categories that sustain the illusions on which the humanities and social sciences are based." -Timothy Fitzgerald, Honorary Research Associate Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Queensland, Australia, and Research Associate, the Center for Critical Research on Religion, USA. "A must-read for any scholar who wants to learn how to think beyond the confinements of modern social theory." -Jayne Svenungsson, Professor of Systematic Theology, Lund University, Sweden. "By decolonizing the secular-religion binary, Horii provides an important challenge to sociology's self-understanding as a secular discipline and he calls into question a number of its conventional scholarly abstractions. This is a fascinating book that furthers crucial debates and thus will definitely be of interest to scholars in a range of disciplines." -Jason ?nanda Josephson Storm, Professor of Religion and the Chair of Science & Technology Studies, Williams College, USA. 606 $aReligion and sociology 606 $aSocial sciences$xPhilosophy 606 $aSociology of Religion 606 $aSocial Theory 606 $aSociology of Religion 606 $aSociology of Religion 615 0$aReligion and sociology. 615 0$aSocial sciences$xPhilosophy. 615 14$aSociology of Religion. 615 24$aSocial Theory. 615 24$aSociology of Religion. 615 24$aSociology of Religion. 676 $a306.6 676 $a306.6 700 $aHorii$b Mitsutoshi$f1977-$01222249 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910520088003321 996 $aReligion' and 'secular' categories in sociology$92834324 997 $aUNINA