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A Secular Age beyond the West - Religion, Law and the State in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa (Hardcover)
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A Secular Age beyond the West - Religion, Law and the State in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics
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This book traces religion and secularity in eleven countries not
shaped by Western Christianity (Japan, China, Indonesia, India,
Pakistan, Iran, Russia, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, and Morocco), and
how they parallel or diverge from Charles Taylor's grand narrative
of the North Atlantic world, A Secular Age (2007). In all eleven
cases, the state - enhanced by post-colonial and post-imperial
legacies - highly determines religious experience, by variably
regulating religious belief, practice, property, education and/or
law. Taylor's core condition of secularity - namely, legal
permissibility and social acceptance of open religious unbelief
(Secularity III) - is largely absent in these societies. The areas
affected by state regulation, however, differ greatly. In India,
Israel and most Muslim countries, questions of religious law are
central to state regulation. But it is religious education and
organization in China, and church property and public practice in
Russia that bear the brunt. This book explains these differences
using the concept of 'differential burdening'.
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