Multiple Secularities Beyond the West : Religion and Modernity in the Global Age.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Multiple Secularities beyond the West: An Introduction -- Part I: Religious Communities and the State: Fault-Lines of Religion and Secularity in South Asia -- Secular Anxieties and Transnational Engagements in India -- "Speaking" the Nation Secular: (E)merging Faces of India -- Anti-caste Radicalism, Dalit Movements and the Many Critiques of Secular Nationalism in India -- Part II: Nationalism, Islam and Democratization: Secular Dynamics in the Arab World -- Deviance as a Phenomenon of Secularity: Islam and Deviants in Twentieth-century Egypt-A Search for Sociological Explanations -- Secularity Contested: Religion, Identity and the Public Order in the Arab Middle East -- Part III: Secularities in East Asia -- Japanese Responses to Imperialist Secularization: The Postwar Movement to Restore Shinto in the Public Sphere -- The Religious-Secular Divide at the Community Level in Contemporary Japan -- Part IV: African Scenarios: (Post-)Colonial Secularity vs. African Religiosity? -- Moments of Insurgency: Christianity in South African Politics, from the 18th Century to Today -- After Pentecostalism? Exploring Intellectualism, Secularization and Guiding Sentiments in Africa -- Part V: The Sacred Secular: Secularities in post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe -- Vulnerable Post-Soviet Secularities: Patterns and Dynamics in Russia and Beyond -- Socialist Secularities: The Diversity of a Universalist Model -- Conclusions -- Between World Society and Multiple Modernities: Comparing Cultural Constructions of Secularity and Institutional Varieties of Secularism -- List of Contributors -- Index.

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