A Secular Age beyond the West by Mirjam Knkler, John Madeley... - 9781108417716

A Secular Age beyond the WestReligion, Law and the State in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa\nAuthor(s): Mirjam Knkler, John Madeley, Shylashri Shankar\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108417716, 978-1108417716\nSynopsis\nThis 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 [tel]. In all eleven cases, the state - enhanced by post-colonial and post-imperial 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.