Asia and the Secular - Francophone Perspectives in a Global Age

This volume looks at the secular state in the context of contemporary Asia and investigates whether there existed before modernity antecedents to the condition of secularity, understood as the differentiation of the sphere of the religious from other spheres of social life. The chapters presented in this book examine this issue in national contexts by looking at the historical formation of lexicons that defined the "secular", the "secular state," and "secularism". This approach requires paying attention to modern vernacular languages and their precedents in written traditions with often a very long tradition. This book presents three interpretive frameworks: multiple modernities, variety of secularisms, and typologies of post-colonial secular states.

About the author

P. Bourdeaux, EPHE, E. Dufourmont, Université de Bordeaux-Montaigne, A. Laliberté, University of Ottawa and R. Madinier, CASE.

Product details

• Assisted by: Pascal Bourdeaux (Editor), Eddy Dufourmont (Editor), André Laliberté (Editor), André Laliberté et al (Editor), Rémy Madinier (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2024
• EAN: 9783111523606
• ISBN: 978-3-11-152360-6
• No. of pages: 247
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 15 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 534 g
• Illustrations: 2 b/w and 1 col. ill., 2 b/w tbl.
• Series: Religion and Its Others; ISSN; Religion and Its Others, 10
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions