Religion' and `Secular' Categories in Sociology : Decolonizing the Modern Myth by Mitsutoshi Horii

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.?
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