Religion and secularity : transformations and transfers of religious discourses in Europe and Asia / edited by Marion Eggert and Lucian Holscher.

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Religion and Secularity assembles studies on the concept of "secularity" in various cultures, thereby tracing the entangled history of the modern re-configuration of the religious field across the Eurasion continent

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction / Marion Eggert -- 2. Influence of Foreign Knowledge on Eighteenth Century European Secularism / Heiner Roetz -- 3. Religious and the Secular: Semantic Reconfigurations of the Religious Field in Germany from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries / Lucian Holscher -- 4. Origin of the Concept of Laicite in Nineteenth Century France / Sylvie Le Grand -- 5. Secularization, Re-Enchantment, or Something in between? Methodical Considerations and Empirical Observations Concerning a Controversial Historical Idea / Volkhard Krech -- 6. Concepts of ̀Religion' and S̀ecularism' in the Hebrew Language and Their Manifestations in Israel's Socio-Political Dynamics / Yochi Fischer -- 7. Laiklik and Its Introduction into Public Discourse in Turkey / Anat Lapidot-Firilla -- 8. Civic Piety: Visions of Secularity in Constitutional Iran / Nahid Mozaffari -- 9. Equality in Hierarchy: Secularism and the Protection of Religions in Sri Lanka / Sven Bretfeld -- 10. Japanese Discoveries of S̀ecularization' Abroad and at Home, 1870-1945 / Hans Martin Kramer -- 11. Discursive Formations Surrounding ̀Religious Freedom' in Modern Japan: Religion, Shinto, the Emperor Institution / Jun'ichi Isomae -- 12. Religionizing Confucianism and the Re-Orientation of Confucian Tradition in Modern China / Chen Hsi-yuan -- 13. Historical Formation of the ̀Religious-Secular' Dichotomy in Modern Korea / Jang Sukman.

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