Secularism and Religion-Making (AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion Series) 1st edition by Dressler, Markus, Mandair, Arvind (2011) Paperback

by Markus Dressler

This book conceives of "religion-making" broadly as the multiple ways in which social and cultural phenomena are configured and reconfigured within the matrix of a world-religion discourse that is historically and semantically rooted in particular Western and predominantly Christian experiences, knowledges, and institutions. It investigates how religion is universalized and certain ideas, social formations, and practices rendered "religious" are thus integrated in and subordinated to very particular - mostly liberal-secular - assumptions about the relationship between history, politics, and religion. The individual contributions, written by a new generation of scholars with decisively interdisciplinary approaches, examine the processes of translation and globalization of historically specific concepts and practices of religion - and its dialectical counterpart, the secular - into new contexts. This volume contributes to the relatively new field of thought that aspires to unravel the thoroughly intertwined relationships between religion and secularism as modern concepts.

Genres: Theology

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First published October 3, 2011

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[Garame]

كتاب لا انصح به أحد جل ما فيه غامض من حيث العبارة إلا أن هناك مفهوما عاما استخرجت منه وأشك أنني فهمته بشكل صحيح بحيث يوافق ما كان يريد المؤلف توصيله إلى القارئ لماذا بعض الكتب متكلفة وهي تتحدث عن أشياء لا تقع تحت العلوم التجريدية الصعبة بل تتحدث عن الحياة وعن مشكلات الناس والأحداث عموما هذا ظلم للكتب تلك إذ إنها تنفر عن نفسها أي قارئ يرغب المامها بشكل جيد