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27-07-2020 | Symposium: Reflections Before, During, and Beyond COVID-19

Symposium: Reflections Before, During, and Beyond COVID-19

Reflections on a Secular Age: Dharmaśāstric and Confucian Social Orderings

Author: Jason Morgan

Published in: Society | Issue 4/2020

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Abstract

The modern world is often described as highly secularized. This secularization can distort our view of the past, and also of societies in which secularization holds less sway than in other places. In this essay, I examine Confucianism and Dharmaśāstra as two paradigms for the study of pre-secular or non-secular societies, comparing and contrasting Confucian and Hindu societies while comparing and contrasting both with the current, “secular age”.

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Title: Symposium: Reflections Before, During, and Beyond COVID-19
Reflections on a Secular Age: Dharmaśāstric and Confucian Social Orderings
Author: Jason Morgan
Publication date: 27-07-2020
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Society / Issue 4/2020
Print ISSN: 0147-2011
Electronic ISSN: 1936-4725
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-020-00501-7

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