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- Investigates how secularism(s) participate in the production of religious subjects and vice versa
- Grounded in empirical and ethnographic data from various countries, including Belgium, Cuba, Netherlands, Brazil, Spain, Argentine, Portugal, and Morocco
- Covers a wide range of faiths including Islam, evangelical Christianity, Catholicism, and Afro-Cuban spirituality
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
As a consequence of the demise of secularization theory, we live in an interesting intellectual moment where the so-called ‘post-secular’ coexists with the secular, which in turn has become pluralized and historicized. This cohabitation of the secular and post-secular is revealed mainly through political dialectical processes that overshadow the subjective and inter-subjective dimensions of secularity, making it difficult to pinpoint concrete sites, agents, and objects of expression.
Drawing on cases from South America, Africa, and Europe, contributors apply key insights from religious studies debates on the genealogies and formations of both religion and secularism. They explore the spaces, persons, and places in which these categories emerge and mutually constitute one another.
Editors and Affiliations
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Center for Research in Anthropology (CRIA) and New University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
José Mapril
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Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Ruy Blanes
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Department of Anthropology, Universidade Federal Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Emerson Giumbelli
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Centre for Religion, Conflict and the Public Domain, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
Erin K. Wilson
About the editors
Ruy Blanes is an anthropologist and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is also Principal Researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal. He is the author of A Prophetic Trajectory, co-editor of the journal Advances in Research: Religion and Society, and associate editor of HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory.
Emerson Giumbelli is Professor in the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, where he integrates the Center for Religious Studies. He is the author of Religious Symbols in Controversies and co-editor of Religion & Society, a Brazilian journal.
Erin K. Wilson is Director of the Centre for Religion, Conflict, and the Public Domain, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Groningen, Netherlands. Her books include After Secularism: Rethinking Religion in Global Politics and Justice Globalism: Ideology, Crises, Policy (with Manfred B. Steger and James Goodman).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Secularisms in a Postsecular Age?
Book Subtitle: Religiosities and Subjectivities in Comparative Perspective
Editors: José Mapril, Ruy Blanes, Emerson Giumbelli, Erin K. Wilson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43726-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-43725-5Published: 03 March 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82895-4Published: 13 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-43726-2Published: 24 February 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 300
Topics: Secularism, Latin American Culture, European Culture, African Culture