Can We Move Beyond the Secular State?
The article argues for re-consideration of the secularization so often in the West regarded as an essential condition for a democratic state. Its inbuilt incoherence and problematic consequences suggest that the term secular should be abandoned. Deep-seated reasons for objecting to such a proposal f...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI
[2015]
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Religions
Year: 2015, Volume: 6, Issue: 4, Pages: 1457-1470 |
Further subjects: | B
personal integrity
B secularist B accepting uncertainty B religious reform B intellectual apartheid |
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Summary: | The article argues for re-consideration of the secularization so often in the West regarded as an essential condition for a democratic state. Its inbuilt incoherence and problematic consequences suggest that the term secular should be abandoned. Deep-seated reasons for objecting to such a proposal follow, discussing an affront to personal integrity, confronting intellectual apartheid and analysing abuse of religion. A way forward is suggested in learning to accept unavoidable levels of uncertainty, so that generous-minded dialogue can take the place of either/or thinking. |
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ISSN: | 2077-1444 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Religions
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3390/rel6041457 |