Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Chapter 1: Introduction; Kenneth Dean and Peter van der Veer.- Chapter 2: Asian Catholicism, Interreligious Colonial Encounters and Dynamics of Secularism in Asia; Jose Casanova.- Chapter 3: The Secular in India and China; Peter van der Veer.- Chapter 4: Spirit Mediums and Secular/Religious Divides in Singapore; Kenneth Dean.- Chapter 5: Secularization, Sacralization and Subject Formation in Modern China; David A. Palmer and Fabian Winiger.- Chapter 6: The Third Globalization of Catholicism in Greater China; Richard Madsen.- Chapter 7: "Folk Belief," Cultural Turn of Secular Governance and Shifting Religious Landscape in Contemporary China; Xiaoxuan Wang.- Chapter 8: The Roles of Secular States in the Development of Contemporary Chinese Buddhism: A Cross-Strait Perspective on Buddhist Nunneries; Tzu-Lung Chiu.- Chapter 9: Communist Ideology, Secularity, and Reenchantment Challenges for the Catholic Church in Vietnam, 1954-2015; Peter C. Phan.- Chapter 10: The Uncle Ho Religion in Vietnam; Tam T.T. Ngo.- Chapter 11: From Secularism to Popular Progressiveness: Popular Religion and the Creation of Telangana Regionalism; Stefan Binder.- Chapter 12: Adjudicating the Sacred: The Fates of 'Native' Religious Endowments in India and Hong Kong; Leilah Vevaina.- Chapter 13: Secularism and Religious Modernity in Sri Lanka & Singapore: Transregional Revivalism Considered; Neena Mahadev.