The Secular Sacred
Emotions of Belonging and the Perils of Nation and Religion
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How do religious emotions and national sentiment become entangled across the world? In exploring this theme, The Secular Sacred focuses on diverse topics such as the dynamic roles of Carnival in Brazil, the public contestation of ritual in Northern Nigeria, and the culturalization of secular tolerance in the Netherlands.
The contributions focus on the ways in which sacrality and secularity mutually inform, enforce, and spill over into each other. The case studies offer a bottom-up, practice-oriented approach in which the authors are wary to use categories of religion and secular as neutral descriptive terms. The Secular Sacred will be of interest to sociologists, anthropologists, ethnographers, political scientists, and social psychologists, as well as students and scholars of cultural studies and semiotics.
How do religious emotions and national sentiment become entangled across the world? In exploring this theme, The Secular Sacred focuses on diverse topics such as the dynamic roles of Carnival in Brazil, the public contestation of ritual in Northern Nigeria, and the culturalization of secular tolerance in the Netherlands.
The contributions focus on the ways in which sacrality and secularity mutually inform, enforce, and spill over into each other. The case studies offer a bottom-up, practice-oriented approach in which the authors are wary to use categories of religion and secular as neutral descriptive terms. The Secular Sacred will be of interest to sociologists, anthropologists, ethnographers, political scientists, and social psychologists, as well as students and scholars of cultural studies and semiotics.
Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Integrates concepts developed in recent religious studies with concepts employed in the study of nations and nationalism Investigates the crucial and timely issue of the relationship between religion and populism (or neo-populism) in western democracies Opens up a new research track with genuinely multidisciplinary methodological approaches
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“While the secular materialism of religious institutions has long received extensive critical discussion, the complex mutual entailment of secular and religious ideas and practices has attracted far less attention. These attractively written, empirically grounded, and critically oriented essays offer revelatory insights into the play of secularity and religiosity in persons, images, spaces, ideologies, and institutions.” — Michael Herzfeld, Ernest E. Monrad Research Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University, and IIAS Visiting Professor of Critical Heritage Studies, Leiden University
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