Rethinking Postsecularism through Postcolonialism
Postsecularism has emerged in recent years as a set of theoretical interests, orientations, and questions across a range of fields, including political science, history, religious studies, philosophy, and literary studies. My focus in this article is on the possible relations between postsecularism...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2015]
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Interdisciplinary journal for religion and transformation in contemporary society
Year: 2015, Volume: 1, Issue: 1, Pages: 57-71 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Post-secularism
/ Postcolonialism
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AG Religious life; material religion CH Christianity and Society |
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| Summary: | Postsecularism has emerged in recent years as a set of theoretical interests, orientations, and questions across a range of fields, including political science, history, religious studies, philosophy, and literary studies. My focus in this article is on the possible relations between postsecularism and postcolonialism. I argue that postcolonialism can inflect postsecularism inways similar to postcolonial literatureos relation to western literature, a relation that seeks to uncompare and recompare universalisms, offering particular perspectives informed by historical and present-day violence. Comparatively speaking, whereas a western postsecularism can entail the rethinking of Christianity, an Indian postsecularismcan entail the rethinking of a political formulation, of secularism as a state policy where the state assumes a principled distance from religion. |
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| ISSN: | 2364-2807 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Interdisciplinary journal for religion and transformation in contemporary society
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.14220/jrat.2015.1.1.57 |