[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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Main Author: Neal, Patrick (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2015
In: 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
Further subjects:B 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...
ISSN:2040-4867
Contains:Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csu127