Multiple modernities and postsecular societies / edited by Massimo Rosati, Kristina Stoeckl.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From multiple modernities to multiple democracies / Alessandro Ferrara -- Multifaceted or fragmented public spheres in Turkey and Iran / Ugur Kömeçoglu -- The Turkish laboratory: local modernity and the postsecular in Turkey / Massimo Rosati -- Russias cursed issues, post-Soviet religion, and the endurance of secular modernity / Alexander Agadjanian -- European integration and Russian Orthodoxy: two multiple modernities perspectives / Kristina Stoeckl -- A state goddess in the new secular Nepal: reflections on the Kumari case at the Supreme Court / Chiara Letizia; -- Big man of the big God: Nigeria as a laboratory for multiple modernities / Enzo Pace -- The modernity of new societies: South Africa, Brazil and the prospect of a world-sociology / Peter Wagner.