'Religion’ and ‘Secular’ Categories in Sociology: Decolonizing the Modern Myth
Autor Mitsutoshi Horiien Limba Engleză Hardback – 23 noi 2021
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9783030875152
ISBN-10: 3030875156
Pagini: 200
Ilustrații: XVII, 263 p. 1 illus.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2021
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland
ISBN-10: 3030875156
Pagini: 200
Ilustrații: XVII, 263 p. 1 illus.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2021
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland
Cuprins
Introduction.- Theoretical Background.- ‘Religion’ in Social Theory.- ‘The Secular’ in Sociology.- Social Construction of Secularisation Thesis.- Textbooks and Other Introductory Materials.- ‘Religion’ in Liquid Late Modernity of Risk Society.- Conclusion: Social Theory and Sociology after Deconstructing the Religious-Secular Binary.
Notă biografică
Mitsutoshi Horii is Professor of Sociology at Shumei University, Japan, and Principal of Chaucer College, UK.
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Mitsutoshi Horii is Professor at Shumei University in Japan, and Principal of Chaucer College, UK.
Informed by the ‘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 embeds the religion-secular distinction and locates itself on the ‘secular’ side of the binary, sociology will continue to serve the very ideologies it tries to subvert – namely Western modernity/coloniality.
Informed by the ‘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 embeds the religion-secular distinction and locates itself on the ‘secular’ side of the binary, sociology will continue to serve the very ideologies it tries to subvert – namely Western modernity/coloniality.
Horii raises fundamental epistemological questions and deep ontological issues in the field of the sociology of religion. Innovative and provoking, the book will inspire the reader to discuss and question established concepts from new perspectives.”
—Per Pettersson, Professor of Sociology of Religion, Karlstad University, Sweden
“This is a superb book that … calls into question sociology’s own understanding of itself as secular and ‘rational,’ distinguished from the ‘non-rational’ understandings of those it presents as other.”
—John Holmwood, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Nottingham, UK.
“This book is a valuable contribution to the critical demystification of general categories that sustain the illusions on which the humanities and social sciences are based.”
—Timothy Fitzgerald, Honorary Research Associate Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Queensland, Australia, and Research Associate, the Center for Critical Research on Religion, USA.
“A must-read for any scholar who wants to learn how to think beyond the confinements of modern social theory.”
—Jayne Svenungsson, Professor of Systematic Theology, Lund University, Sweden.
“By decolonizing the secular-religion binary, Horii provides an important challenge to sociology’s self-understanding as a secular discipline and he calls into question a number of its conventional scholarly abstractions. This is a fascinating book that furthers crucial debates and thus will definitely be of interest to scholars in a range of disciplines.”
—Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm, Professor of Religion and the Chair of Science & Technology Studies, Williams College, USA.
Caracteristici
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