Religion and Secularity

Transformations and Transfers of Religious Discourses in Europe and Asia

Edited by Marion Eggert and Lucian Hölscher (Ruhr-University Bochum)

Religion and Secularity traces the history of the conceptual binary of religion and secularity in Europe and the repercussions it had in other regions and cultures of the Eurasian continent during the age of imperialism and beyond. Twelve authors from a wide range of disciplines deal in their contributions with the trajectory the concepts of „religion“ and „secularity/secularization“ took, as well as with the corresponding re-configurations of the religious field, in a variety of cultures in Europe, the Near and Middle East, South Asia and East Asia. Taken together, these in-depth studies provide a broad comparative perspective on a penomenon that has been crucial for the development of globalized modernity and its regional interpretations.

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Volume Editor:

Marion Eggert

Lucian Hölscher

Category:

Religious Studies - Comparative Religion & Religious Studies

BIC2:

History, Comparative religion

ISBN13:

9789004251328

Planned Publication Date:

May 2013

Edition info:

Version:

Hardback

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

Approx 280 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

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Biographical note

Marion Eggert, Dr. (1992, Munich, Sinology), is Professor of Korean Studies at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. She has published on Chinese and Korean poetry and poetics, dream culture, travel literature, and religious culture, especially the interaction between Confucianism and Christianity.

Lucian Hölscher, Dr. (1976, Heidelberg, Modern History), is Professor for Modern History at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. He has published on past concepts of the future, the theory of history and the history of religion, including a History of Protestantism (Munich: Beck 2005).

Readership

Academics interested in religious history, conceptual history, world history of (early) modern times, and regional specialists in European, Near Eastern, South Asian and East Asian Studies.

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