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...
| Published in: | Dialog |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2015]
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Dialog
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| 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1540-6385 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Dialog
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/dial.12204 |