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Mapping the Academic Debate
This volume maps the international academic debate on secularity. It places seminal contributions from within 'Western' academia alongside less well-known texts from various parts of the world; in several cases this is the first time that they have been translated into English. The volume demonstrates that the academic debate on secularity was and is a global debate, with contributions from many regions. The collected texts relate to each other either directly or indirectly by referring to similar arguments - whether reinforcing or criticising them - and thus create a discourse. When speaking of global secularity, we therefore do not insinuate a uniform 'world secularity' resulting from the ...
The Secular Imaginary
Given the popularity and success of the Hindu-Right in India's electoral politics today, how may one study ostensibly 'Western' concepts and ideas, such as the secular and its family of cognates, like secularism, secularisation and secularity in non-Western societies without assuming them simply as derivative, or colonial legacies or contrast cases of Western societies? While recognizing that the dominant language of political modernity of Western societies is not easily translatable in non-Western societies, The Secular Imaginary elaborates upon an intellectual history of secularity in modern India by focusing on the two most influential political leaders – M.K. Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru. It is an intellectual history of both idea(s) and intellectuals, which sheds light on Indian narratives of secularity – the Gandhian sarva dharma samabhava, Nehruvian secularism, and unity in diversity. It revisits this dominant narrative of secularity of the twentieth century that influenced and shaped the imagination of the modern nation-state.
Being Hindu, Being Indian
In popular imagination, Lala Lajpat Rai is frequently associated with Bhagat Singh, who, by assassinating J.P. Saunders, avenged Rai’s death, caused by a police lathi charge, and was hanged for it. Lajpat Rai is also remembered for his fervent opposition to British rule. In recent decades, however, historians have converged with the Hindu Right in rediscovering Lajpat Rai as an ideological ancestor of Hindutva. But what then explains Rai’s wholehearted approval of Congress–Muslim League cooperation, and attempt to endow Hindus and Muslims with bonds of common belonging? Why did he reinterpret India’s medieval history to highlight peaceful coexistence between Hindus and Muslims? Have ...
The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East
"Book Abstract: The sociology of the Middle East has been an expanding field of inquiry since the aftermath of WWII when phenomena as diverse as urbanization, internal and international migration, and peasant societies attracted the attention of scholars working on the region. The Middle East became central in key sociological debates on modernization theory and the critical responses. The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East connects this historical trajectory with the emergence of the sociology of Islam, inspired by Max Weber. It explores how within the global community, the Middle East has become a terrain of heightened concern within the post-Cold War context, where the pr...
Chinese Religions and Welfare Regimes Beyond the PRC
This book presents the welfare regime of societies of Chinese heritage as a liminal space where religious and state authorities compete with each other for legitimacy. It offers a path-breaking perspective on relations between religion and state in East Asia, presenting how the governments of industrial societies try to harness the human resources of religious associations to assist in the delivery of social services. The book provides background to the intermingling of Buddhism and the state prior to 1949; and the continuation of that intertwinement in Taiwan and in other societies where live many people of Chinese heritage since then. The main contribution of this work is its detailed acco...
Religion and China's Welfare Regimes
This book presents the welfare regime of China as a liminal space where religious and state authorities struggle for legitimacy as new social forces emerge. It offers a unique analysis of relations between religion and state in the People’s Republic of China by presenting how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tries to harness Buddhist resources to assist in the delivery of social services and sheds light on the intermingling of Buddhism and the state since 1949. This book will appeal to academics in social sciences and humanities and broader audiences interested in the social role of religions, charity, NGOs, and in social policy implementation. The author explores why the CCP turns to Buddhist followers and their leaders and presents a detailed view of Buddhist philanthropy, contextualized with an historical overview, a regional comparative perspective, and a review of policy debates. This book contributes to our understanding of secularity in a major non-Western society influenced by religions other than Christianity.
Buddhism and Medicine in Japan
This book demonstrates the close link between medicine and Buddhism in early and medieval Japan. It may seem difficult to think of Japanese Buddhism as being linked to the realm of medical practices since religious healing is usually thought to be restricted to prayers for divine intervention. There is a surprising lack of scholarship regarding medicinal practices in Japanese Buddhism although an overwhelming amount of primary sources proves otherwise. A careful re-reading of well-known materials from a study-of-religions perspective, together with in some cases a first-time exploration of manuscripts and prints, opens new views on an understudied field. The book presents a topical survey an...
Begriff und Theorie der Moderne
Die Edition der Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Kulturphilosophie von Klaus Christian Köhnke verfolgt den Zweck, dem anhaltenden Interesse für Kulturphilosophie eine Reihe bisher unbekannter Theorietexte zugänglich zu machen. Die Vorlesung zu Begriff und Theorie der Moderne liefert eine begriffsgeschichtliche und systematische Grundlegung der Kulturphilosophie als Reflexionsmedium der Moderne um 1900, die uns heute noch als Epoche betrifft. Die Vorlesung über Zweite Natur, objektiver Geist und der moderne Kulturbegriff bietet das Rüstzeug zur systematischen Weiterentwicklung der klassischen philosophischen Kulturtheorien von Moritz Lazarus, Georg Simmel, Ernst Cassirer u. a. Beide Vorlesungen zusammen stellen eine ausgezeichnete Basis dar, auf der künftige philosophiehistorisch informierte Weiterarbeit an der Kulturphilosophie aufbauen kann.
Umkämpftes Nachleben
Der wundersame Aufstieg Walter Benjamins zu einer intellektuellen Ikone des 20. Jahrhundert erzählt, entlang der konfliktreichen Geschichte seiner zerstreuten Nachlassbestände. Oft ist von einem Wunder die Rede, wenn es um Walter Benjamins Nachleben geht. Nach seinem Selbstmord auf der Flucht vor den Nazis im September 1940 zählte Benjamins Name »zu den verschollensten in der geistigen Welt« (Gershom Scholem). Am Ende des Kalten Krieges war Benjamin ein global rezipierter Autor, die Kontroversen um sein Werk und sein tragisches Schicksal wirken bis heute nach. Robert Pursche rekonstruiert die Geschichte dieser denkwürdigen posthumen Karriere entlang der Konflikte um Benjamins zerstreut...
