Secularisms
In: Contemporary South Asia, Band 19, Heft 3, S. 337-338
ISSN: 1469-364X
In: Contemporary South Asia, Band 19, Heft 3, S. 337-338
ISSN: 1469-364X
In: The political quarterly, Band 71, Heft s1, S. 5-19
ISSN: 1467-923X
In: Index on censorship, Band 18, Heft 5, S. 16-19
ISSN: 1746-6067
In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Band 39, Heft 2, S. 276-288
ISSN: 0090-5917
In: Index on censorship, Band 18, Heft 5, S. 17-18
ISSN: 1746-6067
In: Telos, Heft 167, S. 162-180
ISSN: 0040-2842, 0090-6514
Ward talks about secularism, which is a state-sponsored mythology that has evolved to replace the monarchic mythology of cuius regius eius religio. Laicite itself -- a complex and evolving idea that came to be understood in terms of state-monitored secularism -- goes back to laws preceding, including, and succeeding the Separation of Churches and State Act 1905. The fight here was State control of Roman Catholicism following years of conflict between republican anti-clericalism and Catholic anti-republicans. The 1905 law become the legal basis for laicite, but it has to be understood in terms of what it did not do. Adapted from the source document.
In: International journal of politics, culture and society, Band 21, Heft 1-4, S. 17-37
ISSN: 1573-3416
In: Index on censorship, Band 31, Heft 4, S. 160-166
ISSN: 1746-6067
HINDU MOBS IN AYODHYA, MUSLIMS MASSACRED IN GUJERAT. INDIA'S PROUD BOAST THAT ITS SECULARISM HELD TOGETHER ITS MANY CREEDS AND RACES IS IN TATTERS
In: Thesis eleven: critical theory and historical sociology, Band 128, Heft 1, S. 126-140
ISSN: 1461-7455, 0725-5136
In recent years, the intellectual tide has moved strongly against the kind of secular thinking that characterized Gellner's work. Whether couched in terms of postcolonialism, multiculturalism, genealogy, global understanding, political theology, or the revival of normative, metaphysical and openly religious perspectives, today's postsecular and even anti-secular mood in social theory seems to consign Gellner's project to the dustbin of history: a stern but doomed attempt to shore up western liberal rationalism. Under some revisionary lights, it has even become pointless to distinguish flexible secular thinking which still retains some firm 'bottom lines' from what is routinely portrayed as rampant ideological secularism. Unconvinced by key assumptions and motivations on this terrain, I reactivate Gellner's essential concerns and propositions around secularity and secularism, feeding these into the current debates. Whilst Gellner's stringent, unrivalled exposure of intellectual cant continues to be hugely valuable, and his sense of the utter historicity of social life and thought indispensable, Gellner's critical positivism could not, by his own admission, produce a coherent cultural politics.
In: Political theology, Band 19, Heft 6, S. 540-542
ISSN: 1743-1719
In: Politics, religion & ideology, Band 15, Heft 4, S. 630-631
ISSN: 2156-7697
In: Telos: critical theory of the contemporary, Band 2014, Heft 167, S. 162-179
ISSN: 1940-459X
In: Perspectives on politics: a political science public sphere, Band 11, Heft 1, S. 295-296
ISSN: 1537-5927
In: Contemporary South Asia, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 348-349
ISSN: 0958-4935
In: Contemporary South Asia, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 348-349
ISSN: 1469-364X