Humanist Organizations and Secularization in Germany
Among social scientists, humanist and freethinker organizationsare often described as secularizing agents within society with a critical andconfrontational relation to religions. This article provides a re-evaluation ofthis theory with respect to a contemporary example of German freigeistigorganizat...
| Published in: | Religion and society in Central and Eastern Europe |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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WVU
2017
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Religion and society in Central and Eastern Europe
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Germany
/ Humanistischer Verband Deutschlands
/ Freigeistige Aktion / Deutscher Monistenbund
/ Religion
/ Secularism
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AD Sociology of religion; religious policy KBB German language area |
| Further subjects: | B
Secularization
B Freethought B Humanism B Religio-politics B Non-religion |
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| Summary: | Among social scientists, humanist and freethinker organizationsare often described as secularizing agents within society with a critical andconfrontational relation to religions. This article provides a re-evaluation ofthis theory with respect to a contemporary example of German freigeistigorganizations, the German Humanist Association (Humanistischer VerbandDeutschlands[HVD]). Through being incorporated into German religio-political arrangements, the author argues, the HVD rather imitates religion,thereby unfolding secularization-opposing effects. Drawing on a groundedtheory-based analysis of found data as well as interviews and participantobservations, and with reference to the comparative frameworks regardingmultiple secularities' (Burchardt/Wohlrab-Sahr) or different modes ofnonreligion' (Quack), the article concludes by distinguishing two differenttypes of freigeistig organizations in contemporary Germany, only one ofwhich can by described as a secularizing agent. |
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| ISSN: | 1553-9962 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion and society in Central and Eastern Europe
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