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The Art of Secularism

Author : Karin Zitzewitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781849042956
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Secularism written by Karin Zitzewitz and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the wake of the widely publicised attacks by Hindu nationalist activists on the late M. F. Husain, India's most famous artist and a prominent Muslim, The Art of Secularism addresses the entanglement of visual art with political secularism. The crisis in secularism in India, commonlyassociated with the rise of Hindu nationalism in the 1980s, transformed the meaning of art. It challenged the relation- ships between modernism, national culture, secularism and modernity that had been built since Indias independence in 1947.The Art of Secularism describes how four renowned artists, "M. F. Husain, K. G. Subramanyan, Gulammohammed Sheikh, and Bhupen Khakhar" developed their practice in an era when secular nationalism grappled with the recent re-enchantment of signs. Com- bining close readings of these artists' work withethnography of the art worlds of Mumbai and Vadodara, Karin Zitzewitz describes both the everyday forms of cosmopolitanism in the Indian art world and the increasing vulnerability of art world spaces to cultural regulation. She also presents the shifting conditions of the production and exhibitionof art within the particularly urgent, varied, and sophisticated public debates about secularism in India, in which artists have been increasingly prominent interlocutors.

The Spirit of Secular Art

Author : Robert Nelson
Publisher : Monash University ePress
ISBN 13 : 0980361613
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Spirit of Secular Art written by Robert Nelson and published by Monash University ePress. This book was released on 2007 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE SPIRIT OF SECULAR ART explains the spiritual prestige of art. Various theorists have discussed how art has an aura or indefinable magic. This book explains how, when and why it gained its spiritual properties. The idea that all art is somehow spiritual (even though not religious) is often assumed; this book, while narrating the historical trajectory of art in the most accessible language, reveals how the mysteries of religious practice are abstracted and saved through all stages of secularisation in European culture. THE SPIRIT OF SECULAR ART presents a coherent theory defining the sacred basis of Western aesthetics. It evocatively describes the afterlife of the holy from Ancient Greece to the present, and outlines how the mysterious institution of art can be explained in material terms. Unlike other books in the genre, THE SPIRIT OF SECULAR ART radically deconstructs traditional art history in terms of 'prestige' and the value of the non-material. The book functions as: an alternative critical history of art, integrated with the histories of literature and belief; a philosophical essay on the fundamental values of art and religion; and a critique of the spiritual conceits of contemporary aesthetics and art appreciation.

The Secular Spirit

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0870990969
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book The Secular Spirit written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Secularism in Antebellum America

Author : John Lardas Modern
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226533255
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Secularism in Antebellum America written by John Lardas Modern and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghosts. Railroads. Sing Sing. Sex machines. These are just a few of the phenomena that appear in John Lardas Modern’s pioneering account of religion and society in nineteenth-century America. This book uncovers surprising connections between secular ideology and the rise of technologies that opened up new ways of being religious. Exploring the eruptions of religion in New York’s penny presses, the budding fields of anthropology and phrenology, and Moby-Dick, Modern challenges the strict separation between the religious and the secular that remains integral to discussions about religion today. Modern frames his study around the dread, wonder, paranoia, and manic confidence of being haunted, arguing that experiences and explanations of enchantment fueled secularism’s emergence. The awareness of spectral energies coincided with attempts to tame the unruly fruits of secularism—in the cultivation of a spiritual self among Unitarians, for instance, or in John Murray Spear’s erotic longings for a perpetual motion machine. Combining rigorous theoretical inquiry with beguiling historical arcana, Modern unsettles long-held views of religion and the methods of narrating its past.

Secularism in Indian Art

Author : K. V. Soundara Rajan
Publisher : Abhinav Publications
ISBN 13 : 8170172454
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Secularism in Indian Art written by K. V. Soundara Rajan and published by Abhinav Publications. This book was released on 1988 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Is Directed Towards Inquiring Into The Definition Of The Scope Of Secularism In A Holistic Way, In So Far As It Could Apply To Ancient Indian Creative Art, Often Labelled As Religious Art. It Is, However, Seen That This Art Often Shows In Its Composition, Partly Or Wholly, A Deliberate Unrelatedness To Its Immediate Locus, And Conveys The Mind Of The Artist, His Absorption Of The Aesthetic And Literary, Traditional, Mystic And The Rasa-Charged Pulsating Life-Stream Legacy, And Display Of Macro-Cosmic Temper, Supra-Regional Commonality And Norm-Building Penchant, In His Eventual Creations. Religion Can Produce Profound Thought, But Not Art Which, Through The Medium Of Religion, Shows Insight And The Impacts Of Secular Experience. Examining By A Sampling The Entire Range Of Art, Sectorally And Chronologically, To Detect The Secular Manifestations Embedded In The Art Presentations, The Author Finds That There Is An Integrated Secularism In The Art Of India S Past, Invoked By The Artists Who Had Been Groomed In Its Culture And Who Had Developed A Macro-Perception, By The Totality Of The Impacts Of The Dharmasastras, Arthasastras, Kamasastras, And Natyasastras, Along With The Hieratic Works And The Fertility Cults And Mystic Deity-Devotee Links, Analogous To Mundane Romantic Attachment, And The Ancient Artist Who Owned All This As A Private Legacy, Had Evolved His Own Techniques For Formal Creations Of Them In Art. Illustrated With Sixty-Four Plates And Line Drawings, Besides Notes On Plates And Appendices, The Eight Chapters Of The Book Dissect The Processes Behind Art Creations, To Reveal Humanism And Secularism.

The Politics of Secularism

Author : Murat Akan
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231543808
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Secularism written by Murat Akan and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussions of modernity—or alternative and multiple modernities—often hinge on the question of secularism, especially how it travels outside its original European context. Too often, attempts to answer this question either imagine a universal model derived from the history of Western Europe, which neglects the experience of much of the world, or emphasize a local, non-European context that limits the potential for comparison. In The Politics of Secularism, Murat Akan reframes the question of secularism, exploring its presence both outside and inside Europe and offering a rich empirical account of how it moves across borders and through time. Akan uses France and Turkey to analyze political actors' comparative discussions of secularism, struggles for power, and historical contextual constraints at potential moments of institutional change. France and Turkey are critical sites of secularism: France exemplifies European political modernity, and Turkey has long been the model of secularism in a Muslim-majority country. Akan analyzes prominent debates in both countries on topics such as the visibility of the headscarf and other religious symbols, religion courses in the public school curriculum, and state salaries for clerics and imams. Akan lays out the institutional struggles between three distinct political currents—anti-clericalism, liberalism, and what he terms state-civil religionism—detailing the nuances of how political movements articulate the boundary between the secular and the religious. Disputing the prevalent idea that diversity is a new challenge to secularism and focusing on comparison itself as part of the politics of secularism, this book makes a major contribution to understanding secular politics and its limits.

A Secular Age

Author : Charles Taylor
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674986911
Total Pages : 889 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book A Secular Age written by Charles Taylor and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries, particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time, Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean, and what, precisely, happens when a society becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others.

Faithful to Secularism

Author : David T. Buckley
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231542445
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Faithful to Secularism written by David T. Buckley and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion and democracy can make tense bedfellows. Secular elites may view religious movements as conflict-prone and incapable of compromise, while religious actors may fear that anticlericalism will drive religion from public life. Yet such tensions are not inevitable: from Asia to Latin America, religious actors coexist with, and even help to preserve, democracy. In Faithful to Secularism, David T. Buckley argues that political institutions that encourage an active role for public religion are a key part in explaining this variation. He develops the concept of "benevolent secularism" to describe institutions that combine a basic division of religion and state with extensive room for participation of religious actors in public life. He traces the impact of benevolent secularism on religious and secular elites, both at critical junctures in state formation and as politics evolves over time. Buckley shows how religious and secular actors build credibility and shared norms over time, and explains how such coalitions can endure challenges from both religious revivals and periods of anticlericalism. Faithful to Secularism tests this institutional theory in Ireland, Senegal, and the Philippines, using a blend of archival, interview, and public opinion data. These case studies illustrate how even countries with an active religious majority can become and remain faithful to secularism.

Painted Palaces: The Rise of Secular Art in Early Renaissance Italy

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271048307
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (483 download)

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Download or read book Painted Palaces: The Rise of Secular Art in Early Renaissance Italy written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even many Renaissance specialists believe that little secular painting survives before the late fifteenth century, and its appearance becomes a further argument for the secularizing of art. This book asks how history changes when a longer record of secular art is explored. It is the first study in any language of the decoration of Italian palaces and homes between 1300 and the mid-Quattrocento, and it argues that early secular painting was crucial to the development of modern ideas of art. Of the cycles discussed, some have been studied and published, but most are essentially unknown. A first aim is to enrich our understanding of the early Renaissance by introducing a whole corpus of secular painting that has been too long overlooked. Yet "Painted palaces" is not a study of iconography. In examining the prehistory of painted rooms like Mantegna's Camera Picta, the larger goal is to rethink the history of early Renaissance art.

Secularism, Art and Freedom

Author : David S. Nash
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Secularism, Art and Freedom written by David S. Nash and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1992 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

This Earthly Frame

Author : David Sehat
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030026562X
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book This Earthly Frame written by David Sehat and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning scholar’s sweeping history of American secularism, from Jefferson to Trump “An essential book for understanding today’s culture wars. Sehat’s clear-eyed and elegant narrative will change how you think about our supposedly secular age.”—Molly Worthen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill In This Earthly Frame, David Sehat narrates the making of American secularism through its most prominent proponents and most significant detractors. He shows how its foundations were laid in the U.S. Constitution and how it fully emerged only in the twentieth century. Religious and nonreligious Jews, liberal Protestants, apocalyptic sects like the Jehovah’s Witnesses, and antireligious activists all used the courts and the constitutional language of the First Amendment to create the secular order. Then, over the past fifty years, many religious conservatives turned against that order, emphasizing their religious freedom. Avoiding both polemic and lament, Sehat offers a powerful reinterpretation of American secularism and a clear framework for understanding the religiously infused conflict of the present.

The Privilege of Being Banal

Author : Elayne Oliphant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780226731261
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book The Privilege of Being Banal written by Elayne Oliphant and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: France, officially, is a secular nation. Yet Catholicism is undeniably a monumental presence, defining the temporal and spatial rhythms of Paris. At the same time, it often fades into the background as nothing more than "heritage." In a creative inversion, Elayne Oliphant asks in The Privilege of Being Banal what, exactly, is hiding in plain sight? Could the banality of Catholicism actually be a kind of hidden power? Exploring the violent histories and alternate trajectories effaced through this banal backgrounding of a crucial aspect of French history and culture, this richly textured ethnography lays bare the profound nostalgia that undergirds Catholicism's circulation in non-religious sites such as museums, corporate spaces, and political debates. Oliphant's aim is to unravel the contradictions of religion and secularism and, in the process, show how aesthetics and politics come together in contemporary France to foster the kind of banality that Hannah Arendt warned against: the incapacity to take on another person's experience of the world. A creative meditation on the power of the taken-for-granted, The Privilege of Being Banal is a landmark study of religion, aesthetics, and public space.

Religion, Secularism, and Constitutional Democracy

Author : Jean L. Cohen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231540736
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Religion, Secularism, and Constitutional Democracy written by Jean L. Cohen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polarization between political religionists and militant secularists on both sides of the Atlantic is on the rise. Critically engaging with traditional secularism and religious accommodationism, this collection introduces a constitutional secularism that robustly meets contemporary challenges. It identifies which connections between religion and the state are compatible with the liberal, republican, and democratic principles of constitutional democracy and assesses the success of their implementation in the birthplace of political secularism: the United States and Western Europe. Approaching this issue from philosophical, legal, historical, political, and sociological perspectives, the contributors wage a thorough defense of their project's theoretical and institutional legitimacy. Their work brings fresh insight to debates over the balance of human rights and religious freedom, the proper definition of a nonestablishment norm, and the relationship between sovereignty and legal pluralism. They discuss the genealogy of and tensions involving international legal rights to religious freedom, religious symbols in public spaces, religious arguments in public debates, the jurisdiction of religious authorities in personal law, and the dilemmas of religious accommodation in national constitutions and public policy when it violates international human rights agreements or liberal-democratic principles. If we profoundly rethink the concepts of religion and secularism, these thinkers argue, a principled adjudication of competing claims becomes possible.

Interrogating Secularism

Author : Danielle Haque
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815654774
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Interrogating Secularism written by Danielle Haque and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interrogating Secularism is a call to rethink binary categories of "religion" and "secularism" in contemporary Arab American fiction and art. While most studies that explore the traffic between literature and issues of secularism emphasize how canonical texts naturalize and reinforce secular values, Interrogating Secularism approaches this nexus through novels written by and about ethnic and religious minorities. Haque juxtaposes accounts of secular experience in the writing of Arab Anglophone authors such as Mohja Kahf, Rabih Alameddine, Khaled Mattawa, Laila Lalami, and Rawi Hage, with Arab and Muslim artists such as Ninar Esber, Mounir Fatmi, Hasan Elahi, and Emily Jacir. Looking at multiple genres and modes of aesthetic production, including AIDS narratives, visual art, and digital media, Haque explores how their conventions are used to subvert the ideals tied to secularism and the various anxieties and investments that support secularism as a premise. These authors and artists critique Western iterations of secular thought in spaces such as art exhibits, airports, borders, and literary discourses to capture how the secularism thesis reproduces the exclusivity it intends to remedy.

Questioning Secularism

Author : Hussein Ali Agrama
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226010686
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Questioning Secularism written by Hussein Ali Agrama and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-11-02 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What, exactly, is secularism? What has the West's long familiarity with it inevitably obscured? In this work, Hussein Ali Agrama tackles these questions. Focusing on the fatwa councils and family law courts of Egypt just prior to the revolution, he delves deeply into the meaning of secularism itself and the ambiguities that lie at its heart.

The Oxford Handbook of Secularism

Author : Phil Zuckerman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199988455
Total Pages : 793 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Secularism written by Phil Zuckerman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As recent headlines reveal, conflicts and debates around the world increasingly involve secularism. National borders and traditional religions cannot keep people in tidy boxes as political struggles, doctrinal divergences, and demographic trends are sweeping across regions and entire continents. And secularity is increasing in society, with a growing number of people in many regions having no religious affiliation or lacking interest in religion. Simultaneously, there is a resurgence of religious participation in the politics of many countries. How might these diverse phenomena be better understood? Long-reigning theories about the pace of secularization and ideal church-state relations are under invigorated scrutiny by scholars studying secularism with new questions, better data, and fresh perspectives. The Oxford Handbook of Secularism offers a wide-ranging and in-depth examination of this global conversation, bringing together the views of an international collection of prominent experts in their respective fields. This is the essential volume for comprehending the core issues and methodological approaches to the demographics and sociology of secularity; the history and variety of political secularisms; the comparison of constitutional secularisms across many countries from America to Asia; the key problems now convulsing church-state relations; the intersections of liberalism, multiculturalism, and religion; the latest psychological research into secular lives and lifestyles; and the naturalistic and humanistic worldviews available to nonreligious people.

Lessons in Secular Criticism

Author : Stathis Gourgouris
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823253783
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Lessons in Secular Criticism written by Stathis Gourgouris and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disrupting recent fashionable debates on secularism, this book raises the stakes on how we understand the space of the secular, independent of its battle with the religious, as a space of radical democratic politics that refuse to be theologized.