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Author:   Markus Dressler (Assisant Professor at the Department for Humanities and Social Sciences, Assisant Professor at the Department for Humanities and Social Sciences, Istanbul Technical University) ,  Arvind Mandair (S.B.S.C. Assistant Professor in Sikh Studies, S.B.S.C. Assistant Professor in Sikh Studies, University of Michigan)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 16.30cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780199782949

ISBN 10:   0199782946
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   20 October 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"1. Introduction: Modernity, Religion-Making, and the Postsecular Arvind Mandair, Markus Dressler 2. Imagining Religions in India: Colonialism and the Mapping of South Asian History and Culture Richard King 3. Translations of Violence: Secularism and Religion-Making in the Discourses of Sikh Nationalism Arvind Mandair 4. On the Apocalyptic Tones of Islam in Secular Time Ruth Mas 5. Secularism, ""Religious Violence,"" and the Liberal Imaginary Brian Goldstone 6. The Politics of Spirituality: Liberalizing the Definition of Religion Kerry Mitchell 7. Comparative Religion and the Cold War Transformation of Indo-Persian 'Mysticism' into Liberal Islamic Modernity Rosemary Hicks 8. Apache Revelation: Making Indigenous Religion in the Legal Sphere Greg Johnson 9. Making Religion through Secularist Legal Discourse: The Case of Turkish Alevism Markus Dressler 10. Bloody Boundaries: Animal Sacrifice and the Labor of Religion Mark Elmore 11. Religion Making and Its Failures: Turning Monasteries into Schools and Buddhism in a Religion in Colonial Burma Alicia Turner 12. Precarious Presences, Hallucinatory Times: Configurations of Religious Otherness in German Leitkulturalist Discourse Michael Nijhawan"

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<br> This is an excellent collection of essays. Its unusual perspective allows the talented contributors to explore not just the concept and practice of secularism, but also the development of religion in our time. Anyone interested in this theme will profit from reading this book. -- Talal Asad, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York <br><p><br>

This is an excellent collection of essays. Its unusual perspective allows the talented contributors to explore not just the concept and practice of secularism, but also the development of religion in our time. Anyone interested in this theme will profit from reading this book. Talal Asad, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Author Information

Markus Dressler has published extensively on Turkish Alevism. His further interests include the sociology and politics of Islam in Turkey, nationalist Turkish historiography, and Sufism in the West. Theoretically, his research engages in the work of concepts in the study of religion and Islam, as well as the interaction between religion, secularism, and nationalism. Arvind-Pal S. Mandair is S.B.S.C. Associate Professor of Sikh Studies at the University of Michigan. His recent books include Religion and the Specter of the West and Teachings of the Sikh Gurus. He is a founding editor of the journal Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture and Theory and Assistant editor of Culture and Religion.

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