Religion and secularity : transformations and transfers of religious discourses in Europe and Asia / edited by Marion Eggert and Lucian Holscher.

Religion and Secularity assembles studies on the concept of "secularity" in various cultures, thereby tracing the entangled history of the modern re-configuration of the religious field across the Eurasion continent.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Eggert, Marion
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
Series:Dynamics in the history of religion.
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Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures; List of Uncomon Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Introduction; The Influence of Foreign Knowledge on Eighteenth Century European Secularism; The Religious and the Secular: Semantic Reconfigurations of the Religious Field in Germany from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries; The Origin of the Concept of Laïcité in Nineteenth Century France; Secularization, Re-Enchantment, or Something in between? Methodical Considerations and Empirical Observations Concerning a Controversial Historical Idea.
  • The Concepts of 'Religion' and 'Secularism' in the Hebrew Language and their Manifestations in Israel's Socio-Political DynamicsLaiklik and Its Introduction into Public Discourse in Turkey; Civic Piety: Visions of Secularity in Constitutional Iran; Equality in Hierarchy: Secularism and the Protection of Religions in Sri Lanka; Japanese Discoveries of 'Secularization' Abroad and at Home, 1870-1945; Discursive Formations Surrounding 'Religious Freedom' in Modern Japan: Religion, Shintō, the Emperor Institution.
  • Religionizing Confucianism and the Re-orientation of Confucian Tradition in Modern ChinaThe Historical Formation of the 'Religious-Secular' Dichotomy in Modern Korea; Index of Objects and Terms; Index of Personal Names.