Varieties of Secularism in Asia: Anthropological Explorations of Religion, Politics and the Spiritual

Varieties of Secularism is an ethnographically rich, theoretically well-informed, and intellectually coherent volume which builds off the work of Talal Asad, Charles Taylor, and others who have engaged the issue of secularism(s) and in socio-political life. The volume seeks to examine theories of secularism/secularity and then examine concrete ethnographic cases in order to further the theoretical discussion. This book will appeal to students and scholars of Asian religion, politics and anthropology.