Includes bibliographical references and index.

Can Secularism Travel? / Charles Taylor -- The Sufi and the State / Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- The Individual and Collective Self-Liberation Model of Ustadh Mahmoud Mohamed Taha / Abdullahi Ahmed An-Nacim -- Creating Democratically Friendly Twin Tolerations Outside of Latin Christendom : Tunisia / Alfred Stepan -- Secularism and the Mexican Revolution / Claudio Lomnitz -- Is Confucianism Secular? / Peter van der Veer -- Disenchantment Deferred / Sudipta Kaviraj -- An Ancient Indian Secular Age? / Rajeev Bhargava -- Gandhi's Radicalism : An Interpretation / Akeel Bilgrami -- A Secular Age Outside Latin Christendom : Charles Taylor responds / Charles Taylor.

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What is the character of secularism in countries that were not pervaded by Christianity, such as China, India, and the nations of the Middle East? To what extent is the secular an imposition of colonial rule? How does secularism comport with local religious cultures in Africa, and how does it work with local forms of power and governance in Latin America? Has modern secularism evolved organically, or is it even necessary, and has it always meant progress? A vital extension of Charles Taylor's 'A Secular Age', in which he exhaustively chronicled the emergence of secularism in Latin Christendom, this anthology applies Taylor's findings to secularism's global migration.

In English.