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Varieties of Secularism Asia: Anthropological Explorations Religion, Politics and the Spiritual
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Varieties of Secularism Asia: Anthropological Explorations Religion, Politics and the Spiritual
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Varieties of Secularism Asia: Anthropological Explorations Religion, Politics and the Spiritual
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Whereas Taylor’s magisterial work draws up the conditions and problems of a belief in God in Western modernity, it leaves unexplored the challenges posed by the spiritual in modernity outside of the North Atlantic rim. This anthology seeks to begin that task. It does so by suggesting that the kind of secularity described by Taylor is only one amongst others. By attending to the shifting relationship between proper religion and ‘bad faiths’; between politically valorised and embarrassing spiritual phenomena; between the new visibilities and silences of magic, ancestors, and religion in democratic politics, this book seeks to outline the particular formations of secularism that have become possible in Asia from China to Indonesia and from Bahrain to Timor-Leste.
This book will appeal to students and scholars of Asian religion, politics and anthropology.