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Secularity
About: Secularity is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 960 publications have been published within this topic receiving 14034 citations. The topic is also known as: secular.
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31 Dec 2020
TL;DR: Asad as discussed by the authors explores the concepts, practices, and political formations of the secularism, with emphasis on the major historical shifts that have shaped secular sensibilities and attitudes in the modern West and the Middle East, and concludes that the secular cannot be viewed as a successor to religion, or be seen as on the side of the rational.
Abstract: Opening with the provocative query "what might an anthropology of the secular look like?" this book explores the concepts, practices, and political formations of secularism, with emphasis on the major historical shifts that have shaped secular sensibilities and attitudes in the modern West and the Middle East. Talal Asad proceeds to dismantle commonly held assumptions about the secular and the terrain it allegedly covers. He argues that while anthropologists have oriented themselves to the study of the "strangeness of the non-European world" and to what are seen as non-rational dimensions of social life (things like myth, taboo, and religion),the modern and the secular have not been adequately examined. The conclusion is that the secular cannot be viewed as a successor to religion, or be seen as on the side of the rational. It is a category with a multi-layered history, related to major premises of modernity, democracy, and the concept of human rights. This book will appeal to anthropologists, historians, religious studies scholars, as well as scholars working on modernity.
2,816 citations
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29 Dec 2003
TL;DR: The Modern Moral Order and the Specter of idealism as discussed by the authors have been identified as the foundations of the modern social imagination, and the modern moral order has been called the "Social Imaginary".
Abstract: Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1 The Modern Moral Order 3 2 What Is a "Social Imaginary"? 23 3 the Specter of idealism 31 4 The Great Disembedding 49 5 The Economy as Objectified Reality 69 6 The Public Sphere 83 7 Public and Private 101 8 The Sovereign People 109 9 An All-Pervasive Order 143 10 The Direct-Access Society 155 11 Agency and Objectification 163 12 Modes of Narration 175 13 The Meaning of Secularity 185 14 Provincializing Europe 195 Notes 197
2,190 citations
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01 Jan 2005
TL;DR: In this paper, Taylor discusses the role of Pentecostalism as a major narrative of modernity in the history of the United States and Europe, and compares them with the USA in a central European perspective.
Abstract: Contents: Foreword, Charles Taylor Introduction. PART I ORIENTATIONS: Sociology, religion and secularization Evangelical expansion in global society. PART II EUROPE: Rival patterns of Secularization and their 'triumphal ways' Comparative Secularization North and South Religion, Secularity, Secularism and European integration Canada in Comparative Perspective The USA in central European perspective. PART III NARRATIVES aND METANARRATIVES: Secularization: master narrative or several stories? Pentecostalism: a major narrative of modernity. PART IV COMMENTARY: Mission and the plurality of faiths What is Christian language? The Christian, the political and the academic. Index.
286 citations
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03 Nov 2015
TL;DR: The authors discusses minority rights and religious liberty in the context of the United States and discusses the history of minority rights in the US and its application to the area of family law and gender inequality.
Abstract: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix NOTE ON TRANSLATION AND TRANSLITERATION xiii Introduction 1 Part I Chapter 1. Minority Rights and Religious Liberty: Itineraries of Conversion 31 Chapter 2. To Be or Not to Be a Minority? 66 Part II Chapter 3. Secularism, Family Law, and Gender Inequality 111 Chapter 4. Religious and Civil Inequality 149 Chapter 5. Secularity, History, Literature 181 Epilogue 208 BIBLIOGRAPHY 215 INDEX 229
274 citations
TL;DR: A thorough presentation and discussion of the latest social scientific research concerning the identities, values, and behaviors of people who don't believe in God or are non-religious, and the ways in which atheism and secularity are positively correlated with societal well-being are discussed in this article.
Abstract: What do we currently know about atheists and secular people? In what ways are atheism and secularity correlated with positive societal outcomes? This article offers a thorough presentation and discussion of the latest social scientific research concerning the identities, values, and behaviors of people who don’t believe in God or are non-religious, and addresses the ways in which atheism and secularity are positively correlated with societal well-being.
202 citations