Religion and Modern Society: Citizenship, Secularisation and the State

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Defining the field......Page 12
Globalisation studies......Page 17
Comparative religious studies and the construction of Buddhism......Page 26
Conclusion: the end of the social?......Page 31
References......Page 33
Introduction: etymological roots......Page 35
The history of the sciences of religion and religions......Page 38
Secularisation......Page 41
Religion and political violence......Page 44
Enlightenment and cosmopolitanism......Page 47
Religion and the body......Page 49
Scruples......Page 51
Conclusion......Page 60
Introduction: the social and the sacred......Page 62
The origins of Durkheim\'\ns sociology of religion......Page 63
Rational encyclopedic knowledge and religion......Page 68
The utilitarian dilemma......Page 73
Religion as the refusal of utility......Page 79
The body and the organism......Page 81
Conclusion......Page 83
Introduction: religion as a \'moralising faith\'\n......Page 85
The Kantian legacy......Page 91
The sociology of Islam......Page 94
The sociology of Confucianism......Page 99
Conclusion: religion, economics and politics......Page 102
Introduction: the expressive revolution......Page 103
Parsons\'s sociology of religion......Page 104
The expressive revolution: the romantic love complex and Christian fundamentalism......Page 109
Durkheim and individualism......Page 113
Conclusion: from the expressive to the emotive culture......Page 114
Introduction......Page 116
Douglas\'s anthropology of classification......Page 118
Group and grid......Page 120
Douglas\'s anthropology of the body......Page 121
Body piercing and tattoos......Page 123
Body piercing as transgression: Modern Primitives......Page 126
The fragmentation of the social......Page 128
Conclusion: the loss of ritual......Page 132
Introduction: public religions......Page 134
Bourdieu on religion: a preliminary critique......Page 141
Bourdieu and the \'new paradigm\' in the sociology of religion......Page 148
Conclusion: making use of Bourdieu......Page 154
Part II: Religion, state and post-secularity......Page 157
Introduction: the secular in historical and comparative perspective......Page 159
The sociology of secularisation......Page 166
American exceptionalism......Page 173
Post-secular society......Page 178
Conclusion......Page 182
Introduction: in principle and in practice......Page 183
Max Weber on Shari\'\na......Page 184
Religious courts......Page 188
Customary law and post-colonialism......Page 191
Group rights and trust......Page 194
Towards critical recognition theory......Page 199
What is the law?......Page 202
Conclusion: public reason......Page 205
Introduction......Page 207
Managing religions......Page 211
The Singapore model......Page 216
Post-communist authoritarianism: China and Russia......Page 219
Conclusion: states, sovereignty and space......Page 224
Introduction......Page 226
A \ntheoretical paradigm: the media of exchange......Page 227
Towards a critique of Parsons-Luhmann......Page 232
Religion in the age of ubiquitous media......Page 234
Conclusion: religion and nostalgia......Page 239
Introduction: urban mythologies......Page 241
The da Vinci Code and the feminist critique \nof religious studies......Page 243
The Passion as pornography......Page 247
New media technologies......Page 250
Spirituality, emotion and the confessional culture......Page 254
Conclusion: globalisation, religion and subjectivity......Page 256
Introduction: paradoxes of religion and modernity......Page 260
The Nietzsche paradox: fundamentalism as modernity......Page 267
The Parsonian paradox: the rise of religion and the status of women......Page 273
The McLuhan paradox: globalism and cultural relativism......Page 277
The Montaigne paradox: the question of Orientalism......Page 280
Conclusion: cosmopolitan irony......Page 285
Introduction: religious asceticism and consumerism......Page 287
Understanding America......Page 289
Citizenship and civil religion......Page 295
Conclusion: civil religion, greed talk and resentment......Page 299
Introduction: the comparative sociology of religion......Page 303
What is religion? What is the sacred?......Page 304
Religious rejections of the world and their directions......Page 311
The sociology of piety......Page 316
The global commodification of religion......Page 324
Conclusion: resentment, religion and social mobility......Page 325
Index......Page 365