Beyond the Secular West

Published by Columbia University Press 2016

Beyond the Secular West

Edited by: Akeel Bilgrami

Volume 23 in the series Religion, Culture, and Public Life

https://doi.org/10.7312/bilg17080

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What is the character of secularism in countries that were not pervaded by Christianity, such as China, India, and the nations of the Middle East? A vital extension of Charles Taylor's A Secular Age, which chronicled the emergence of secularism in Latin Christendom, this anthology applies Taylor's findings to secularism's global migration. Contributors explore the transformation of Western secularism beyond Europe, and the collection closes with Taylor's response to each essay.

Nine major scholars of philosophy, religion, law, ethics, history, anthropology, and politics consider the fate of Western secularism in modern global societies. Extending Charles Taylor's A Secular Age, this anthology explores the transformation of Western secularism beyond Europe, and the collection closes with Taylor's response to each essay.

Author / Editor information

Akeel Bilgrami is the Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy and a professor on the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. His books include Who's Afraid of Academic Freedom? (Columbia University Press, 2014); Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment (2014); Self-Knowledge and Resentment (2012); and Belief and Meaning (1995).

Reviews

This volume responds to Charles Taylor's A Secular Age. Framed with an introduction and responses by Charles Taylor, the essays explore how Taylor's work applies to cultures beyond Western Latin Christendom.... Highly recommended.

Uday Singh Mehta, CUNY Graduate Center:
Beyond the Secular West is a distinguished and important set of essays that responds to A Secular Age with critical, broad-ranging, and sympathetic intelligence. The contributions hang together coherently despite the various regions and disciplinary orientations that they represent and richly illuminate the complexity of the issue of secularity as a global phenomenon with a long, diverse history.

José Casanova, Georgetown University:
In counterpoint to Charles Taylor's A Secular Age, a stellar list of contributors offer a diverse range of critical perspectives exploring the ways in which the secular and secularism are translated and transformed as they travel beyond Latin Christendom: from China to India, from the Mexican Revolution to Sufi brotherhoods in Senegal. There is no comparable collection, as challenging and rewarding for expert and educated public alike.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
PREFACE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
1. CAN SECULARISM TRAVEL? Charles Taylor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. THE SUFI AND THE STATE Souleymane Bachir Diagne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
3. THE INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE SELF-LIBERATION MODEL OF USTADH MAHMOUD MOHAMED TAHA Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na′im Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
4. CREATING DEMOCRATICALLY FRIENDLY TWIN TOLERATIONS OUTSIDE OF LATIN CHRISTENDOM: TUNISIA Alfred Stepan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
5. SECULARISM AND THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION Claudio Lomnitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
6. IS CONFUCIANISM SECULAR? Peter van der Veer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
7. DISENCHANTMENT DEFERRED Sudipta Kaviraj Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
8. AN ANCIENT INDIAN SECULAR AGE? Rajeev Bhargava Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
9. GANDHI’S RADICALISM: AN INTERPRETATION Akeel Bilgrami Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
10. A SECULAR AGE OUTSIDE LATIN CHRISTENDOM: CHARLES TAYLOR RESPONDS Charles Taylor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	246
CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
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Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 296

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Published: March 22, 2016
ISBN: 9780231541015