A Secular Age beyond the West: Religion, Law and the State in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa (Cambridge Studies in Socia,Used
A Secular Age beyond the West: Religion, Law and the State in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa (Cambridge Studies in Socia,Used

A Secular Age beyond the West: Religion, Law and the State in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa (Cambridge Studies in Socia,Used

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This book traces religion and secularity in eleven countries not shaped by Western Christianity (Japan, China, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Iran, Russia, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, and Morocco), and how they parallel or diverge from Charles Taylor's grand narrative of the North Atlantic world, A Secular Age (2007). In all eleven cases, the state enhanced by postcolonial and postimperial legacies highly determines religious experience, by variably regulating religious belief, practice, property, education and/or law. Taylor's core condition of secularity namely, legal permissibility and social acceptance of open religious unbelief (Secularity III) is largely absent in these societies. The areas affected by state regulation, however, differ greatly. In India, Israel and most Muslim countries, questions of religious law are central to state regulation. But it is religious education and organization in China, and church property and public practice in Russia that bear the brunt. This book explains these differences using the concept of 'differential burdening'.

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