Secularism and Religion-Making

MD: Assist. Prof. at the Department for Humanities and Social Sciences, Istanbul Technical UniversityAM: S.B.S.C. Assist. Prof. in Sikh Studies at the University of Michigan

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.

• 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 NationalismArvind 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 ModernityRosemary 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