A Secular Age Beyond the West: Religion, Law and the State in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa

Book Overview

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 post-colonial and post-imperial legacies - highly determines religious experience, by variably...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108405614
• ISBN13: 9781108405614
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"