Aufsatz(elektronisch)Januar 2001
Two Concepts of Secularism
In: Journal of policy history: JPH, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 47-72
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Abstract
Looking back over the century just ended, it is not easy to assess the status and prospects of secularism and the secular ideal in the United States. As is so often the case in American history, when one sets out in search of the simple and obvious, one soon comes face to face with a crowd of paradoxes. The psychologist Erik Erikson once observed that Americans have a talent for sustaining opposites, and he could hardly have been more right. Such Janus-faced doubleness, or multiplicity, is virtually the Americanspecialité de la maison.
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