Islamicate Secularities: New Perspectives on a Contested Concept
In the colonial era, new distinctions and differentiations between religious and non-religious spheres took shape within inner-Islamic discourses, partly as a product of encounters with Western knowledge. This introduction conceptualizes these distinctions and differentiations in relation to Islam,...
| Published in: | Historical social research |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2019
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Historical social research
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| Further subjects: | B
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B Comparison of theories B Triangulation B historical social research B Paradigm B theory comparison B Epistemology B Secularization B Concept of B Religion B Historical social research B political factors B Historical Analysis B Historische Entwicklung B Politische Faktoren B Discourse B Methodenvergleich B Religious sociology B Islam B comparison of methods B Historical Development B sociology of religion B Cognition theory B Historische Analyse |
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| Summary: | In the colonial era, new distinctions and differentiations between religious and non-religious spheres took shape within inner-Islamic discourses, partly as a product of encounters with Western knowledge. This introduction conceptualizes these distinctions and differentiations in relation to Islam, drawing on Marshall Hodgson’s concept of the Islamicate, which we employ for our heuristic notion of Islamicate secularities. It charts the paradigmatic conflicts that shape the contested fields of Islamic and secularity/secularism studies. The introduction discusses the epistemological and political context of these debates, and argues that theoretical and normative conflicts should not hinder further empirical inquiries into forms of secularity in Islamicate contexts. It also explores promising theoretical and methodological approaches for further explorations. Particular emphasis is laid on the historical trajectories and conditions, close in time or distant, that have played a role in the formation of contemporary Islamicate secularities. |
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| ISSN: | 2366-6846 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Historical social research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.12759/hsr.44.2019.3.7-34 |