Overview
- Provides a unique cross fertilization of critical approaches in sociology and religious studies
- Challenges the binary of religion and secularism by historicizing it and placing it in a discursive framework
- Challenges the hegemony of Western modernity/coloniality
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Informed by ‘critical religion’ perspective in Religious Studies and postcolonial self-reflection in Sociology, this book interrogates the ideas of ‘religion’ and ‘the secular’ in social theory and Sociology. It argues that as long as social theory and sociological discourse embed the religion-secular distinction and locate themselves on the ‘secular’ side of the binary, Sociology will continue to serve the very ideologies it tries to subvert – namely Western modernity/coloniality.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Mitsutoshi Horii is Professor of Sociology at Shumei University, Japan, and Principal of Chaucer College, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: 'Religion’ and ‘Secular’ Categories in Sociology
Book Subtitle: Decolonizing the Modern Myth
Authors: Mitsutoshi Horii
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87516-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-87515-2Published: 23 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-87518-3Published: 24 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-87516-9Published: 01 January 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 263
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Religion, Social Theory, Religion and Society, Secularism