Historicizing Secular-Religious Demarcations: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Differentiation Theory. Sonderband der Zeitschrift für Soziologie

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Title: Historicizing Secular-Religious Demarcations : Interdisciplinary Contributions to Differentiation Theory. Sonderband der Zeitschrift für Soziologie

Contains: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I Premodern Boundary Negotiations: Self-Distinctions of the Religious Sphere -- Dynamics of Differentiation from Charlemagne to Dante. Medieval Christian Debates on Religion and Politics beyond the Model of a “Separation of Church and State” -- Secularity and Differentiation in Late Antiquity. The Case of Augustine of Hippo -- Monasticism, Differentiation and Secularization: Talcott Parsons and the Catholic ‘Monastic Movement’ in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- Negotiating the Boundaries between Religion and Science in the Abbasid Empire -- Religious and Secular in Premodern Islam and Christianity -- Part II Colonial Boundaries: Religion, Culture, and “Middle Things” -- King, Messiah, and Culture in the Making of Zulu Secularity -- The “Middle Things”. Differentiating between the Religious Spheres in Indian and African Mission Contexts in the Nineteenth Century -- Beyond Non-Catholic/Catholic (Luong/Giao) Separation: Missionary Expansion and Divergent Manifestations of Religious Differentiation in Colonial Vietnam -- Part III Competing Epistemes: Lessons Learned From Asia -- The Autonomy of Science vis-a-vis Religion: Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome as a Theoretical Counter-Narrative to the Western Master Narrative of Functional Differentiation -- Global Translations: Conceptualizing Differentiations Between ‘Religion’ and ‘Science’ in Thailand and the Philippines in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- Demarcating Religion: On the Varying Ways of Conceptualizing Social Differentiation in Japanese History -- Rethinking the Place of Religion and Worldviews in Differentiation Theory: A Historical Comparison between Chinese and European Societies -- Part IV Programmatic Proposals: Differentiation Theory and the Sociology of Religion and Secularity -- The Fragmentation of the Sacred: An Alternative Narrative of Western Modernity -- Rigid Differentiation Theory and Flexible Sociology of Religion? -- After Autonomy. Relationships between Art and Religion in Nineteenth Century Germany and their Implications for Differentiation Theory -- Beyond Normative Binaries: Neutral Zones as Precursors and Starting Points of Secularity -- The Authors

Contributor: Echtler, Magnus [Contributor]; Gorski, Philip [Contributor]; Hempel, Fabian [Contributor]; Hermann, Adrian [Contributor]; Jung, Dietrich [Contributor]; Karstein, Uta [Contributor]; Kleine, Christoph [Contributor]; Kleine, Christoph [Editor]; Nghiem, Thao [Contributor]; Pollack, Detlef [Contributor]; Preuß, Kai [Contributor]; Schimank, Uwe [Contributor]; Schwinn, Thomas [Contributor]; Seiwert, Hubert [Contributor]; Steckel, Sita [Contributor]; Tyrell, Hartmann [Contributor]; Vanderstraeten, Raf [Contributor]; Wetjen, Karolin [Contributor]; Witte, Daniel [Contributor]; Witte, Daniel [Editor]; Wohlrab-Sahr, Monika [Contributor]; Wohlrab-Sahr, Monika [Editor]

Published: Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, [2024]

Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (V, 471 p.)

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9783111386645

ISBN: 9783111386645

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Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion ; Boundary Work ; Cultural Sociology ; Global Comparison ; Historical Sociology ; Non-Religion ; Secularity ; Sociology of Religion

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Footnote: In English

Description: This volume aims to revitalize the exchange between sociological differentiation theory and the sociology of religion, which previously held center stage among the sociological classics. It brings together contributions from different disciplines, as well as various forms of regional and historical expertise, which are indispensable in forming a globally oriented sociological perspective today. Secularization is understood as a process of boundary demarcation, that is, as the enactment of semantic, practical, and institutional distinctions between religion and other spheres of activity and knowledge. These distinctions may emerge from within the religious field itself, or may be absorbed into the field having originally emerged elsewhere. They may even be directly imposed upon religion by external forces. The volume is therefore based on the premise that societal differentiation – and secularity as a specific expression of it – is a widespread structural feature that nonetheless takes on various forms, depending on its historical and cultural context. In order to make this diversity visible, the volume adopts a global comparative perspective, and examines historical distinctions and differentiations in the West and beyond. By examining different forms and modes of secularity in statu nascendi, the volume contributes to developing a better understanding of the diversity of secularities, even of those found in the present day, in terms of their historicity and their specific path dependencies. With this shift in perspective, this special volume initiates a global and historical turn in the theory of differentiation, as well as in the study of secularity

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