'Religion' and 'secular' categories in sociology : decolonizing the modern myth / Mitsutoshi Horii.
2021
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Title
'Religion' and 'secular' categories in sociology : decolonizing the modern myth / Mitsutoshi Horii.
ISBN
9783030875169 (electronic bk.)
3030875164 (electronic bk.)
9783030875152
3030875156
3030875164 (electronic bk.)
9783030875152
3030875156
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Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
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English
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1 online resource (1 volume)
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10.1007/978-3-030-87516-9 doi
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BL60
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.6
Summary
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. Horii raises fundamental epistemological questions and deep ontological issues in the field of the sociology of religion.
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Table of Contents
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.
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.