The Impossibility of Liberal Secularism: Religious (In)tolerance, Spirituality, and Not-Religion

This article re-thinks the problem of religious (in)tolerance by analyzing the 2015 deportation of three “Hindu priests” from a Caribbean nation for the practice of obeah. Defined popularly as “witchcraft” or “African tradition,” obeah was first criminalized as the alleged inspiration for the larges...

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Main Author: Crosson, J. Brent (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2018
In: Method & theory in the study of religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 30, Issue: 1, Pages: 37-55
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Secularism / Liberalism / Religious freedom / Intolerance / Obeah / Criminalization
IxTheo Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
AG Religious life; material religion
AZ New religious movements
KBR Latin America
KBS Australia; Oceania
Further subjects:B Liberalism obeah anthropology of secularism religious (in)tolerance Caribbean and Latin America u.s. Islam freedom of religion colonialism
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)