Overview
- Presents new analysis and research on secularism from across Asia, including both urban and rural areas
- Provides a comparative perspective, examining different religious developments within Asia, and between Asia and the West
- Contests the dominant historical narrative of secularization demonstrating its limited applicability outside of the Euro-American historical context
Part of the book series: Global Diversities (GLODIV)
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Keywords
- secularization
- post-secular
- Asian Catholicism
- Chinese Buddhism
- Charles Taylor
- re-enchantment
- confessional state
- communism
- Jesuit accommodation
- colonialism
- religious nationalism
- sacralisation
- popular religion
- religious freedom
- folk belief
- Chinese communal religion
- secular governance
- Ethnography
- religious networks
- secularism
- religion and society
Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Editors and Affiliations
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Kenneth Dean is Professor and Director of Chinese Studies at National University Singapore.
Peter van der Veer is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany, and Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Secular in South, East, and Southeast Asia
Editors: Kenneth Dean, Peter van der Veer
Series Title: Global Diversities
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89369-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89368-6Published: 29 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07751-8Published: 01 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-89369-3Published: 13 June 2018
Series ISSN: 2662-2580
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2599
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 325
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Religion, Social Anthropology, Secularism, Asian Culture, Religion and Society, Politics and Religion