1. Introduction: Modernity, Religion-Making, and the
Postsecular
Arvind Mandair, Markus Dressler
2. Imagining Religions in India: Colonialism and the Mapping of
South Asian History and Culture
Richard King
3. Translations of Violence: Secularism and Religion-Making in the
Discourses of Sikh Nationalism
Arvind Mandair
4. On the Apocalyptic Tones of Islam in Secular Time
Ruth Mas
5. Secularism, "Religious Violence," and the Liberal Imaginary
Brian Goldstone
6. The Politics of Spirituality: Liberalizing the Definition of
Religion
Kerry Mitchell
7. Comparative Religion and the Cold War Transformation of
Indo-Persian 'Mysticism' into Liberal Islamic Modernity
Rosemary Hicks
8. Apache Revelation: Making Indigenous Religion in the Legal
Sphere
Greg Johnson
9. Making Religion through Secularist Legal Discourse: The Case of
Turkish Alevism
Markus Dressler
10. Bloody Boundaries: Animal Sacrifice and the Labor of
Religion
Mark Elmore
11. Religion Making and Its Failures: Turning Monasteries into
Schools and Buddhism in a Religion in Colonial Burma
Alicia Turner
12. Precarious Presences, Hallucinatory Times: Configurations of
Religious Otherness in German Leitkulturalist Discourse
Michael Nijhawan
Markus Dressler has published extensively on Turkish Alevism. His
further interests include the sociology and politics of Islam in
Turkey, nationalist Turkish historiography, and Sufism in the West.
Theoretically, his research engages in the work of concepts in the
study of religion and Islam, as well as the interaction between
religion, secularism, and nationalism.
Arvind-Pal S. Mandair is S.B.S.C. Associate Professor of Sikh
Studies at the University of Michigan. His recent books include
Religion and the Specter of the West and Teachings of the Sikh
Gurus. He is a founding editor of the journal Sikh Formations:
Religion, Culture and Theory and Assistant editor of Culture and
Religion.
"This is an excellent collection of essays. Its unusual perspective allows the talented contributors to explore not just the concept and practice of secularism, but also the development of religion in our time. Anyone interested in this theme will profit from reading this book."-- Talal Asad, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
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