Secularization, Desecularization, and Toleration
Cross-Disciplinary Challenges to a Modern Myth
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This book challenges the modern myth that tolerance grows as societies become less religious. The myth inseparably links the progress of toleration to the secularization of modern society. This volume scrutinizes this grand narrative theoretically and empirically, and proposes alternative accounts of the varied relationships between diverse interpretations of religion and secularity and multiple secularizations, desecularizations, and forms of toleration. The authors show how both secular and religious orthodoxies inform toleration and persecution, and how secularizations and desecularizations engender repressive or pluralistic regimes. Ultimately, the book offers an agency-focused perspective which links the variation in toleration and persecution to the actors of secularization and desecularization and their cultural programs.
This book challenges the modern myth that tolerance grows as societies become less religious. The myth inseparably links the progress of toleration to the secularization of modern society. This volume scrutinizes this grand narrative theoretically and empirically, and proposes alternative accounts of the varied relationships between diverse interpretations of religion and secularity and multiple secularizations, desecularizations, and forms of toleration. The authors show how both secular and religious orthodoxies inform toleration and persecution, and how secularizations and desecularizations engender repressive or pluralistic regimes. Ultimately, the book offers an agency-focused perspective which links the variation in toleration and persecution to the actors of secularization and desecularization and their cultural programs.
Questions one-sided assumptions about secularization and toleration Aims to achieve an evidence-based view of the relationships between secularization, desecularization, and toleration in the history of ideas, social arrangements, and transformations Written with a cross-disciplinaryapproach and scope, with contributors come from a variety of academic fields
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Vyacheslav Karpov
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St. Augustine Ibn ‘Arabi Moses Mendelssohn Abraham Kuyper Zionism secularism religion and society
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“The cast of authors gathered in this book is extremely impressive, and the quality of nearly every chapter is outstanding. … the wide variation in topics also makes it such a rich, comparative read. … This book proves that we deeply need such juxtapositions. It succeeds, in a way, not only with its title, but also with its subtitle, which makes the point that cross-disciplinary approaches to myth busting are not just serious but essential.” (Robert J. Joustra, IJRF, International Journal for Religious Freedom, Vol. 15 (1-2), 2022)
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