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Making Sense of the Secular|Ranjan Ghosh

Making Sense of the Secular : Critical Perspectives from Europe to Asia

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This book offers a wide range of critical perspectives on how secularism unfolds and has been made sense of across Europe and Asia. The book evaluates secularism as it exists today - its formations and discontents within contemporary discourses of power, terror, religion and cosmopolitanism - and the focus on these two continents gives critical attention to recent political and cultural developments where secularism and multiculturalism have impinged in deeply problematical ways, raising bristling ideological debates within the functioning of modern state bureaucracies. Examining issues as controversial as the state of Islam in Europe and China's encounters with religion, secularism, and modernization provides incisive and broader perspectives on how we negotiate secularism within the contemporary threats of terrorism and other forms of fundamentalism and state-politics.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780415536950
  • ISBN-10: 0415536952
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publish Date: November 2012
  • Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.9 pounds
  • Page Count: 226

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