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Asia and the Secular: Francophone Perspectives in a Global Age

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Asia and the Secular: Francophone Perspectives in a Global Age - Bourdeaux, Pascal (Editor), and Dufourmont, Eddy (Editor), and Laliberté, André (Editor)
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This volume looks at the secular state in the context of contemporary 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 ...

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Asia and the Secular: Francophone Perspectives in a Global Age 2022, De Gruyter, Berlin

ISBN-13: 9783110738001

Hardcover