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"Secularization, Secularity, and Secularism in the New Millennium: Macro-theories and Research" published on by Oxford University Press.

Argues that cosmopolitanism is not "a view from nowhere" but is grounded in the Western Enlightenment; thus Hegelian & the ostensibly less Eurocentric anthropological cosmopolitanisms are viewed as colonialist. In this light, contradictions inherent in them are explored. Colonial cosmopolitanism is first discussed as a form of cultural translation & conversion of the local to the universal. It is best understood as a form of improvisation & translation characteristic of colonial modernity, demonstrable as a view from somewhere. The secularity of colonial cosmopolitanism is next addressed, linking it to liberal & evangelical cosmopolitanisms. In pursuit of an alternative to secular colonial cosmopolitanism, attention turns to the discourse underpinning the notion of spirituality, highlighting the anticolonial Hinduism in the Vedanta of the British Empire's India, wherein Kant, Madame Blavatsky, & Swami Vivekananda coalesce. The implications of this for a history of cosmopolitanism are touched on in closing. J. Zendejas