[Rezension von: Multiple modernities and postsecular societies]
Edited collections notoriously raise the problem of coherence among the contributions; this one succeeds admirably in avoiding that problem. The structure is straightforward. Each contributor applies the theoretical framework of “multiple modernities” to a particular sociopolitical example as a mean...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2015
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2015, Volume: 57, Issue: 1, Pages: 175-177 |
| Review of: | Multiple modernities and postsecular societies (Farnham [u.a.] : Ashgate, 2012) (Neal, Patrick)
Multiple Modernities and Postsecular Societies (London : Taylor and Francis, 2016) (Neal, Patrick) |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Religion
/ The Modern
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Book review
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| Summary: | Edited collections notoriously raise the problem of coherence among the contributions; this one succeeds admirably in avoiding that problem. The structure is straightforward. Each contributor applies the theoretical framework of “multiple modernities” to a particular sociopolitical example as a means of examining the role(s) of religion in the processes of modernization that these societies are enacting. Turkey, Iran, Russia, Nepal, and Nigeria are the primary sites of this analysis, with others being touched upon along the way. Always present is the contrast, sometimes implicit but usually explicit, with the “standard, Western” account of modernization, understood as entailing the development of secularism at the expense of religion. A key theme of nearly all contributions is the way in which this standard framework fails... |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csu127 |