Secularism And Identity

Author : Dr Reza Gholami
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781472430106

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Secularism and Identity by Dr Reza Gholami Pdf

Within western political, media and academic discourses, Muslim communities are predominantly seen through the prism of their Islamic religiosities, yet there exist within diasporic communities unique and complex secularisms. Drawing on detailed interview and ethnographic material gathered in the UK, this book examines the ways in which a form of secularism – ‘non-Islamiosity’ – amongst members of the Iranian diaspora shapes ideas and practices of diasporic community and identity, as well as wider social relations.

Author : Akeel Bilgrami
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674052048

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Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment by Akeel Bilgrami Pdf

In a rigorous exploration of how secularism and identity emerged as conflicting concepts in the modern world, Akeel Bilgrami elaborates a notion of secular enchantment with a view to finding in secular modernity a locus of meaning and value, while addressing squarely the anxiety that all such notions are exercises in nostalgia.

Author : Lori G. Beaman,Sonia Sikka
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773592209

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Multiculturalism and Religious Identity by Lori G. Beaman,Sonia Sikka Pdf

How, and to what extent, can religion be included within commitments to multiculturalism? Multiculturalism and Religious Identity addresses this question by examining the political recognition and management of religious identity in Canada and India. In multicultural policy, practice, and literature, religion has until recently not been included within broader discussions of multiculturalism, perhaps due to worries of potential for conflict with secularism. This collection undertakes a contemporary analysis of how the Canadian and Indian states each approach religious diversity through social and political policies, as well as how religion and secularism meet both philosophically and politically in contested public space. Although Canada and India have differing political and religious histories - leading to different articulations of multiculturalism, religious diversity, and secularism - both countries share a commitment to ensuring fair treatment for the different religious communities they include. Combining broader theoretical and normative reflections with close case studies, Multiculturalism and Religious Identity leads the way to addressing these timely issues in the Canadian and Indian contexts.

Author : Fern Elsdon-Baker,Bernard Lightman
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780822987697

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Identity in a Secular Age by Fern Elsdon-Baker,Bernard Lightman Pdf

Although historians have suggested for some time that we move away from the assumption of a necessary clash between science and religion, the conflict narrative persists in contemporary discourse. But why? And how do we really know what people actually think about evolutionary science, let alone the many and varied ways in which it might relate to individual belief? In this multidisciplinary volume, experts in history and philosophy of science, oral history, sociology of religion, social psychology, and science communication and public engagement look beyond two warring systems of thought. They consider a far more complex, multifaceted, and distinctly more interesting picture of how differing groups along a spectrum of worldviews—including atheistic, agnostic, and faith groups—relate to and form the ongoing narrative of a necessary clash between evolution and faith. By ascribing agency to the public, from the nineteenth century to the present and across Canada and the United Kingdom, this volume offers a much more nuanced analysis of people’s perceptions about the relationship between evolutionary science, religion, and personal belief, one that better elucidates the complexities not only of that relationship but of actual lived experience.

Author : Abby Day,Giselle Vincett,Christopher R. Cotter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317053989

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Social Identities Between the Sacred and the Secular by Abby Day,Giselle Vincett,Christopher R. Cotter Pdf

Focusing on the important relationship between the 'sacred' and the 'secular', this book demonstrates that it is not paradoxical to think in terms of both secular and sacred or neither, in different times and places. International experts from a range of disciplinary perspectives draw on local, national, and international contexts to provide a fresh analytical approach to understanding these two contested poles. Exploring such phenomena at an individual, institutional, or theoretical level, each chapter contributes to the central message of the book - that the ’in between’ is real, embodied and experienced every day and informs, and is informed by, intersecting social identities. Social Identities between the Sacred and the Secular provides an essential resource for continued research into these concepts, challenging us to re-think where the boundaries of sacred and secular lie and what may lie between.

Author : Sarah Wolff
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472132539

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Secular Power Europe and Islam by Sarah Wolff Pdf

Reconsidering the European Union's secular identity

Author : Reza Gholami
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317058274

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Secularism and Identity by Reza Gholami Pdf

Within western political, media and academic discourses, Muslim communities are predominantly seen through the prism of their Islamic religiosities, yet there exist within diasporic communities unique and complex secularisms. Drawing on detailed interview and ethnographic material gathered in the UK, this book examines the ways in which a form of secularism - ’non-Islamiosity’ - amongst members of the Iranian diaspora shapes ideas and practices of diasporic community and identity, as well as wider social relations. In addition to developing a novel theoretical paradigm to make sense of the manner in which diasporic communities construct and live diasporic identity and consciousness in a way that marginalises, stigmatises or eradicates only ’Islam’, Secularism and Identity shows how this approach is used to overcome religiously inculcated ideas and fashion a desirable self, thus creating a new space in which to live and thereby attaining ’freedom’. Calling into question notions of anti-Islamism and Islamophobia, whilst examining secularism as a means or mechanism rather than an end, this volume offers a new understanding of religion as a marker of migrant identity. As such it will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology and political science with interests in migration and ethnicity, diasporic communities, the sociology of religion and emerging forms of secularism.

Author : Loren D. Lybarger
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691187327

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Identity and Religion in Palestine by Loren D. Lybarger Pdf

This remarkable book examines how the Islamist movement and its competition with secular-nationalist factions have transformed the identities of ordinary Palestinians since the first Palestinian uprising, or intifada, of the late 1980s. Drawing upon his years living in the region and more than eighty in-depth interviews, Loren Lybarger offers a riveting account of how activists within a society divided by religion, politics, class, age, and region have forged new identities in response to shifting conditions of occupation, peace negotiations, and the fragmentation of Palestinian life. Lybarger personally witnessed the tragic days of the first intifada, the subsequent Oslo Peace Process and its failures, and the new escalation of violence with the second intifada in 2000. He rejects the simplistic notion that Palestinians inevitably fall into one of two camps: pragmatists who are willing to accept territorial compromise, and extremists who reject compromise in favor of armed struggle. Listening carefully to Palestinians themselves, he reveals that the conflicts evident among the Islamists and secular nationalists are mirrored by the internal struggles and divided loyalties of individual Palestinians. Identity and Religion in Palestine is the first book of its kind in English to capture so faithfully the rich diversity of voices from this troubled part of the world. Lybarger provides vital insights into the complex social dynamics through which Islamism has reshaped what it means to be Palestinian.

Author : Roger McNamara
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498548946

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Secularism and the Crisis of Minority Identity in Postcolonial Literature by Roger McNamara Pdf

Secularism and the Crisis of Minority Identity in Postcolonial Literature examines how writers from religious and ethnic minority communities (Anglo-Indians, Burghers, Dalits, Muslims, and Parsis) in India and Sri Lanka engage secularism through novels, short stories, and autobiographies. Given the rise of Hindu nationalism in India and Sinhala-Buddhist nationalism in Sri Lanka, it would seem obvious that minorities would rally around secularism (the separation of church and state). However, this bookargues that the relationship between minorities and secularism is extremely ambivalent. On the one hand, it shows how writers belonging to oppressed communities can deploy secularism as a mode of critique (secular criticism) to challenge the ideologies of dominant groups—the nation, upper-castes, and religious hierarchies. On the other hand, it examines how these writers reveal that other aspects of secularism (secularization and secular time) are responsible for creating essentialized identities that have not only exacerbated relationships between majorities and minorities and between minority groups, but have also created tension within minority groups themselves. Turing to aesthetics and religious faith, these writers attempt to undermine secular social and cultural structures that are responsible for this crisis of minority identity.

Author : Matt Sheedy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000450309

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Owning the Secular by Matt Sheedy Pdf

Owning the Secular examines three case studies dealing with religious symbols and cultural identity, including two public controversies over the veil in Canada – at the federal level and in the province of Québec – and an ex-Muslim podcaster rethinking her atheist identity in the era of Donald Trump and the alt-right. Drawing on theories of discourse analysis and ideology critique, this study calls attention to an evolution in how secularism, nationalism, and multiculturalism in Euro-Western states are debated and understood as competing groups contest and rearrange the meaning of these terms. This is especially true in the digital age as online cultures have transformed how information is spread, how we imagine our communities, build alliances, and produce shared meaning. From recent attempts to prohibit religious symbols in public, to Trump’s so-called Muslim bans, to growing disenchantment with the promises of digital media, this study turns the lens how nation-states, organizations, and individuals attempt to "own" the secular to manage cultural differences, shore up group identity, and stake a claim to some version of Western values amidst the growing uncertainties of neoliberal capitalism.

Author : Andrew Copson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : RELIGION
ISBN : 9780198809135

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Secularism by Andrew Copson Pdf

What is secularism? -- Secularism in Western societies -- Secularism diversifies -- The case for Secularism -- The case against Secularism -- Conceptions of Secularism -- Hard questions and new conflicts -- Afterword: the future of Secularism

Author : Erkan Toğuşlu,Johan Leman,İsmail Mesut Sezgin
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789058679819

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New Multicultural Identities in Europe by Erkan Toğuşlu,Johan Leman,İsmail Mesut Sezgin Pdf

Multiculturalism in present-day Europe How to understand Europe’s post-migrant Islam on the one hand and indigenous, anti-Islamic movements on the other? What impact will religion have on the European secular world and its regulation? How do social and economic transitions on a transnational scale challenge ethnic and religious identifications? These questions are at the very heart of the debate on multiculturalism in present-day Europe and are addressed by the authors in this book. Through the lens of post-migrant societies, manifestations of identity appear in pluralized, fragmented, and deterritorialized forms. This new European multiculturalism calls into question the nature of boundaries between various ethnic-religious groups, as well as the demarcation lines within ethnic-religious communities. Although the contributions in this volume focus on Islam, ample attention is also paid to Christianity, Judaism, and Hinduism. The authors present empirical data from cases in Turkey, Germany, France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Poland, Norway, Sweden, and Belgium, and sharpen the perspectives on the religious-ethnic manifestations of identity in the transnational context of 21st-century Europe.

Author : Paulos Gregorios
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : East and West
ISBN : UCAL:B3718716

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Enlightenment, East and West by Paulos Gregorios Pdf

Author : Marinos Diamantides,Adam Gearey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136675645

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Islam, Law and Identity by Marinos Diamantides,Adam Gearey Pdf

The essays brought together in Islam, Law and Identity are the product of a series of interdisciplinary workshops that brought together scholars from a plethora of countries. Funded by the British Academy the workshops convened over a period of two years in London, Cairo and Izmir. The workshops and the ensuing papers focus on recent debates about the nature of sacred and secular law and most engage case studies from specific countries including Egypt, Israel, Kazakhstan, Mauritania, Pakistan and the UK. Islam, Law and Identity also addresses broader and over-arching concerns about relationships between religion, human rights, law and modernity. Drawing on a variety of theoretical and empirical approaches, the collection presents law as central to the complex ways in which different Muslim communities and institutions create and re-create their identities around inherently ambiguous symbols of faith. From their different perspectives, the essays argue that there is no essential conflict between secular law and Shari`a but various different articulations of the sacred and the secular. Islam, Law and Identity explores a more nuanced and sophisticated understanding of the tensions that animate such terms as Shari`a law, modernity and secularization

Author : Kaushik Basu,Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015041322697

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Unravelling the Nation by Kaushik Basu,Sanjay Subrahmanyam Pdf

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