The secular in India and China

van der Veer, Peter

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-89369-3_3

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van der Veer, Peter
Religious Diversity, MPI for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Max Planck Society;

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van der Veer, P. (2019). The secular in India and China. In P. van der Veer, & K. Dean (Eds.), The Secular in South, East, and Southeast Asia (pp. 37-50). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-89369-3_3.

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This contribution argues that since the nation-state and nationalism are crucial in religious and political practice everywhere, including Asia, it is clear that secularism extends beyond the West. The point here is that the secular frames the religious everywhere in societies that have the nation-form. This contribution is a critique of Charles Taylor’s understanding of the reflexive nation-state by pointing out the extent to which the modern nation-state is enchanted.