Spirits in and of Southeast Asia’s Modernity: an Overview
No scholar in the contemporary field of social sciences or cross-cultural studies would question Peter L. Berger’s observation that ‘today’s world is furiously religious’ (Berger 1999: 9). The once well-accepted ‘modernization theory’ of the 1960s and 1970s, which assumed that the introduction of ma...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam University Press (AUP)
2014
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| In: |
Dynamics of religion in Southeast Asia
Year: 2014, Pages: 33-54 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Asia
/ Religiosity
/ Belief in spirits
/ Secularism
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| IxTheo Classification: | AA Study of religion AG Religious life; material religion |
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| Summary: | No scholar in the contemporary field of social sciences or cross-cultural studies would question Peter L. Berger’s observation that ‘today’s world is furiously religious’ (Berger 1999: 9). The once well-accepted ‘modernization theory’ of the 1960s and 1970s, which assumed that the introduction of market economies in Asia would not only institute state-directed democracy and neoliberal reforms but also trigger processes of secularization that would push religion out of the public arena and into the private sphere, has turned out to be wrong. Critical reason, a concept shaped by the ‘philosophical enlightenment’ of Kant and others, obviously did not prevail on... |
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| ISBN: | 9048516277 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Dynamics of religion in Southeast Asia
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/9789048516278 DOI: 10.2307/j.ctt12877t8.5 |