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Beyond the Secular West (Paperback)
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Beyond the Secular West (Paperback)
Series: Religion, Culture, and Public Life, 23
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What is the character of secularism in countries that were not
pervaded by Christianity, such as China, India, and the nations of
the Middle East? To what extent is the secular an imposition of
colonial rule? How does secularism comport with local religious
cultures in Africa, and how does it work with local forms of power
and governance in Latin America? Has modern secularism evolved
organically, or is it even necessary, and has it always meant
progress? A vital extension of Charles Taylor's A Secular Age, in
which he exhaustively chronicled the emergence of secularism in
Latin Christendom, this anthology applies Taylor's findings to
secularism's global migration. Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im, Rajeev
Bhargava, Akeel Bilgrami, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Sudipta
Kaviraj, Claudio Lomnitz, Alfred Stepan, Charles Taylor, and Peter
van der Veer each explore the transformation of Western secularism
beyond Europe, and the collection closes with Taylor's response to
each essay. What began as a modern reaction to-as well as a
stubborn extension of-Latin Christendom has become a complex export
shaped by the world's religious and political systems. Brilliantly
alternating between intellectual and methodological approaches,
this volume fosters a greater engagement with the phenomenon across
disciplines.
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