Éditeur:
Collection:
series Religion and Its Others
Date de parution:
février, 2023
Type de norme: 
ISBN 13
Numéro: 
9783110738001
Direction d'ouvrage:
Pascal Bourdeaux, Eddy Dufourmont, André Laliberté and Rémy Madinier

Asia and the Secular Francophone Perspectives in a Global Age

Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière, Michel Picard

Asia and investigates whether there existed before modernity antecedents to the condition of secularity, understood as the differentiation of the sphere of the religious from other spheres of social life. The chapters presented in this book examine this issue in national contexts by looking at the historical formation of lexicons that defined the "secular", the "secular state," and "secularism". This approach requires paying attention to modern vernacular languages and their precedents in written traditions with often a very long tradition. This book presents three interpretive frameworks: multiple modernities, variety of secularisms, and typologies of post-colonial secular states.