Springer Secularisms in a Postsecular Age?: Religiosities and Subjectivities in Comparative Perspective

This volume ethnographically explores the relation between secularities and religious subjectivities. As a consequence of the demise of secularization theory, we live in an interesting intellectual moment where the so-called ‘post-secular’ coexists with the secular, which in turn has become pluralized and historicized. This cohabitation of the secular and post-secular is revealed mainly through political dialectical processes that overshadow the subjective and inter-subjective dimensions of secularity, making it difficult to pinpoint concrete sites, agents, and objects of expression. Drawing on cases from South America, Africa, and Europe, contributors apply key insights from religious studies debates on the genealogies and formations of both religion and secularism. They explore the spaces, persons, and places in which these categories emerge and mutually constitute one another. From the Back Cover This volume ethnographically explores the relation between secularities and religious subjectivities. As a consequence of the demise of secularization theory, we live in an interesting intellectual moment where the so-called ‘post-secular’ coexists with the secular, which in turn has become pluralized and historicized. This cohabitation of the secular and post-secular is revealed mainly through political dialectical processes that overshadow the subjective and inter-subjective dimensions of secularity, making it difficult to pinpoint concrete sites, agents, and objects of expression. Drawing on cases from South America, Africa, and Europe, contributors apply key insights from religious studies debates on the genealogies and formations of both religion and secularism. They explore the spaces, persons, and places in which these categories emerge and mutually constitute one another. About the Author José Mapril is the author of Transnationalism and Islam: An Ethnography between Portugal and Bangladesh and co-author of The Sites and Politics of Religious Diversity with Ruy Blanes. He also authored E xperiencing Religion: New Approaches to Personal Religiosity with Clara Saraiva, Peter Jan Margry, Lionel Obadia, and Kinga Povedak. Ruy Blanes is an anthropologist and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is also Principal Researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal. He is the author of A Prophetic Trajectory, co-editor of the journal Advances in Research: Religion and Society, and associate editor of HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. Emerson Giumbelli is Professor in the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, where he integrates the Center for Religious Studies. He is the author of Religious Symbols in Controversies and co-editor of Religion & Society, a Brazilian journal. Erin K. Wilson is Director of the Centre for Religion, Conflict, and the Public Domain, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Groningen, Netherlands. Her books include After Secularism: Rethinking Religion in Global Politics and Justice Globalism: Ideology, Crises, Policy (with Manfred B. Steger and James Goodman).