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Este artículo analiza el modo en que, a pesar de su vocación universal e inclusiva, el secularismo se ha convertido en el principal argumento para la exclusión de prácticas religiosas musulmanas con la consiguiente limitación de las libertades individuales. Así, una institución concebida como un procedimiento para garantizar la igualdad de los ciudadanos mediante la diferenciación de las esferas política y religiosa, se vuelve una característica que define la identidad europea y que debe defenderse frente a los reclamos de acomodación planteados por los inmigrantes musulmanes. Si bien todo indica que no es posible establecer una relación causa-efecto, el clima de hostilidad hacia la diferencia cultural que se abre paso con el auge de partidos de extrema derecha en Europa, con un rechazo hacia el Islam y los musulmanes, podría estar influenciando, hasta cierto punto, la orientación política de algunos gobiernos europeos en esta materia. ; This paper analyses how, despite the universalist and inclusive vocation of secularism, this has become the main argument for the exclusion of Muslim religious practices, with the consequent limitation of individual liberties. Thus, an institution thought as a procedure to guarantee the equality of the citizens through the differentiation between the political and religious spheres becomes a feature that defines the identity of Europe and that it is necessary to defend against the accommodation demands raised by Muslim immigrants. Obviously, it is not possible to establish a cause-effect relationship, but the climate of hostility towards the cultural difference spread by the entry into several European polities of radical right parties, clearly hostile to Islam and Muslims, could be influencing, in some way, the political orientation of European governments in this regard. © 2018 University of Deusto. All rights reserved.

The renewal of the Ottoman Empire was carried out by some groups from western education, aiming to strengthen domestic development through an effective strategy to maintain the territorial integrity of Turkey. The presence of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was the beginning of progress as well as renewal in the Ottoman Empire which had long experienced collapse and destruction. In addition, his secular ideas made him the first leader to pioneer the westernization movement. With that Turkey became a modern country under the leadership of Kemal Atthatruk with military guard. In addition, he also made Muslims and interfaith tolerant in their religious practices. He also created a modern form of Islam by turning it into Islamic-oriented political parties. Therefore, this study aims to discuss the thoughts of secularism and the progress made by Kemal Ataturk as well as its impact on the Islamic world. To achieve this goal, in this study the author uses the historical method which is one way to solve a problem that originates in the past. By way of finding sources, verification, interpretation of sources and the last is historiography. As for obtaining sources, researchers used a type of library research which attempted to examine secularism and the progress initiated by Kemal Attatruk using a social approach.Kata Kunci: Sekularisme, Kemal Attratruk, Islam

This book is a systematic and thorough analysis of what post-modernity is and how it emerged. It distinguishes between those who regard post-modernity as a theoretical approach and those who regard it as a culture, and argues that interpreting post-modernity as a culture is more fruitful. It discusses the three factors which led to its emergence, namely liberalism, capitalism, and secularism, highlighting their respective influence in generating the culture of post-modernity within neoliberal societies. The volume provides a lengthy analysis of neoliberal post-modernity in practice, arguing that post-modernism is the cultural condition of neoliberal societies in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Until recently it seemed that neoliberal post-modernity was here to stay, framed by relationship to freedom and time which stressed individual agency but precluded the possibility of historical change at the political level. However, the Great Recession of 2008 opened new spaces for agitation and transformation which has resulted in the discordant politics of the last decade. This book will be of interest to scholars working in a number of fields, including economic policy, cultural analysis, political theory, and social critique. Matthew McManus is Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics at Whitman College, USA.

This PhD thesis asks how we can conceptualize the current separation doctrine of religion and politics in a country like Denmark, where the structure of the established church and peoplehood overlap. In order to answer this question, Hans Bruun Dabelsteen maps the current discussion of secularism and proposes two conceptual expansions. The first is to include modest establishment in a framework of secularism defensible by political liberalism, and the second is to consider secularism in close connection to a theory of peoplehood. Methodologically positioned between interpretive realism and policy analysis, Dabelsteen study Danish secularism as an ideological concept. He finds that the conceptual structure of Danish secularism holds separation-as-principled distance at its core. Institutionally this particularly pertains to the establishment arrangement, and in practice it translates into the principle of treating everybody equally (with religious freedom, equality and Danish peoplehood as the most important principles adjacent to secularism). In a study of the historical roots of the separation doctrine and two current policy cases (same-sex marriage and reforms of church governance), Dabelsteen shows how an ideological concept like secularism does not hold one clear and final conception. Rather, its meaning is fluid and subject to constant contestation over time. Based on these empirical analyses, he identifies two variants of Danish secularism dominating the ideological discourse today: assertive secularism and accommodationist secularism. It is argued that it is the development of these two positions, and their mutual struggle that defines the future of political conditions of the established church and other minority religious communities in Denmark.

This article undertakes a defense of secularism, much maligned by postmodernists and multiculturalists. First, secularism as a normative political principle is conceptually distinguished from the discredited sociological theory of secularization and, second, it is treated as a project of free and equal citizenship. The conceptual discussion is complemented by an assessment of the Turkish case, falsely presented in the literature as a radical form of secularism. The article aims to show that a religious political movement, opposed to secularism, tends to be authoritarian and intolerant of diversity.

Peter D. Beaulieu examines the challenges to secular modernity and Islam as they encounter one another. By restoring a place at the table for Trinitarian Christianity alongside the monotheism of Islam and the skeptical indifference of Western rationalism, Beaulieu broadens the pallet of inter-religious and intercultural contact points

Sumantra Bose's Secular States, Religious Politics examines the origins and trajectories of secularism in India and Turkey as major examples of non-Western secular states. Coming from a prominent Indian political family, Bose provides deep insights throughout the book by adopting a historical comparative perspective.

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