Taking a different course, and drawing on a few techniques practiced in the Indian Ocean littoral in the seventeenth to…
Translative sedimentations in the Indian Ocean
Asia
Why religion is different: Five contradictions of religion in law
Tamir Moustafa’s Constituting Religion incisively reveals both the enduring and disturbing impacts of constitutional law on the ways Malaysians imagine…
CFP: Conference on Inter-Asian Connections III
The Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the University of Hong Kong, the National University of Singapore,…
Peter Berger on multilateral globalization
Globalization is not defined by one-way Westernization, argues Peter Berger in his new blog at The American Interest Online. Rather,…
“Inter-Asian Connections”
Following the successful inaugural conference held in Dubai in February 2008, the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social…
Hybrid consciousness or purified religion
Charles Taylor's framework for understanding the advent of a "secular age" in the North Atlantic world offers a useful first…
Embedded religion in Asia
The secularity of modern Asian states has by no means led to widespread social secularity, Taylor's second secularity, a decline…
Discerning the religious spirit of secular states in Asia
In his monumental book, A Secular Age, Charles Taylor distinguishes three meanings of secularism, as it refers to the "North Atlantic…