Secularism and religion-making
This book conceives of "religion-making" broadly as the multiple ways in which social and cultural phenomena are configured and reconfigured within the matrix of a world-religion discourse that is historically and semantically rooted in particular Western and predominantly Christian experi...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
New York, NY
Oxford University Press
2011
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| In: | Year: 2011 |
| Series/Journal: | AAR reflection and theory in the study of religion series
AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion Ser |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Religion
/ Secularism
/ Islam
/ Buddhism
B Religion / Secularism |
| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Religion and sociology B Religion Agnosticism B Electronic books B Secularism B Conference program |
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| Summary: | This book conceives of "religion-making" broadly as the multiple ways in which social and cultural phenomena are configured and reconfigured within the matrix of a world-religion discourse that is historically and semantically rooted in particular Western and predominantly Christian experiences, knowledges, and institutions. It investigates how religion is universalized and certain ideas, social formations, and practices rendered "religious" are thus integrated in and subordinated to very particular - mostly liberal-secular - assumptions about the relationship between histo |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0199783020 |