This book explores the relational dynamic of religious and nonreligious positions as well as the tensions between competing modes of nonreligion.

'This is a timely work that considerably furthers our understanding of nonreligious identities in regions that hitherto have seen little scholarly attention. The authors provide researchers with an invaluable toolbox for and illuminating examples of thorough and multidimensional analysis of contemporary nonreligion vis-á-vis its societal others.' Tom Kaden, University of Bayreuth, Germany

Autorentext

Johannes Quack is Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He is the author of Disenchanting India: Organized Rationalism and Criticism of Religion in India (2012).

Cora Schuh is a PhD student at the Institute for the Study of Culture, University of Leipzig, Germany.

Susanne Kind is a PhD student at the Institute for the Study of Culture, University of Leipzig, Germany.

Inhalt

1 Introduction: Researching the Diversity of Nonreligion 2 Concept: Non/religious Constructions and Contestations 3 Contested Humanist Identities in Sweden 4 Collective Nonreligiosities in the Philippines 5 Secularizing Politics in the Netherlands 6 Comparison: Normativities and Contested Relations