Post-Secularism, Secular Theology, and the Names of the Real

This article disputes the common view of religious and secular as oppositional terms. Our contemporary world is post-secularist, because secularism is a modern ideology that imagines a strict separation of the religious and the political, where religion becomes a purely private affair. This situatio...

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Main Author: Crockett, Clayton 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2015]
In: Dialog
Year: 2015, Volume: 54, Issue: 4, Pages: 317-326
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
CG Christianity and Politics
FA Theology
NBC Doctrine of God
Further subjects:B Jacques Lacan
B secular theology
B Gilles Deleuze
B Post-secularism
B François Laruelle
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Summary:This article disputes the common view of religious and secular as oppositional terms. Our contemporary world is post-secularist, because secularism is a modern ideology that imagines a strict separation of the religious and the political, where religion becomes a purely private affair. This situation is compromised by the “return” of religion in political terms. Constructively, following Jacques Lacan, we can say that secular theology concerns the Real; and with François Laruelle, we can think about a non-theology that complements what he calls non-philosophy. Finally, I speculate on three names of the Real: energy, capital, and nomos.
ISSN:1540-6385
Contains:Enthalten in: Dialog
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/dial.12204