'Religion’ and ‘Secular’ Categories in Sociology

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'Religion’ and ‘Secular’ Categories in Sociology is written by Mitsutoshi Horii and published by Springer Nature. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3030875164 (ISBN 10) and 9783030875169 (ISBN 13).

Informed by ‘critical religion’ perspective in Religious Studies and postcolonial self-reflection in Sociology, this book interrogates the ideas of ‘religion’ and ‘the secular’ in social theory and Sociology. It argues that as long as social theory and sociological discourse embed the religion-secular distinction and locate themselves on the ‘secular’ side of the binary, Sociology will continue to serve the very ideologies it tries to subvert – namely Western modernity/coloniality.