From religious to secular place-making: How does the secular matter for religious place construction in the local?
The literature on religious place-making has largely prioritized an emic perspective of religious actors often reducing the secular aspect of such place-making to a mere 'emptying out' of religion from public space. Based on ethnographic observations and in-depth interviews with political...
| Published in: | Social compass |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
[2019]
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| In: |
Social compass
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Religion
/ Space
/ Secularism
B France / Islam / Space / Evangelical movement |
| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BJ Islam KBG France KDG Free church |
| Further subjects: | B
Evangelical Churches
B Laïcité B Islam B places of worship B fabrique de l'espace religieux et séculier B secular place-making B religious place-making B églises évangélistes B Lieux de culte |
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| Summary: | The literature on religious place-making has largely prioritized an emic perspective of religious actors often reducing the secular aspect of such place-making to a mere 'emptying out' of religion from public space. Based on ethnographic observations and in-depth interviews with political and religious representatives in Montreuil, one of the flagship towns of the 'red belt' of municipalities around Paris, this article looks at secular aspects of religious place construction. The discussion focusses on two practices of secular place-making: defining of religion 'worthy' of place and shifting the boundary between public and private space. Comparing the municipality's interactions with Muslim groups on the one hand, and evangelical churches on the other, I show that politics and sensibilities of the secular towards the religious vary for different religious groups over time. Locality can thus be understood as dynamic mode of secularism, enabling a constant placing and re-placing of religion. La littérature sur le processus de « place making » du religieux au niveau local a largement privilégié la perspective des acteurs religieux, omettant l'aspect séculier de cette construction de l'espace, qui est souvent réduite à une simple élimination du religieux de l'espace public. Basé sur un travail ethnographique et des entretiens menés à Montreuil, ville à l'Est de Paris et figure de proue de la ceinture rouge, cet article discute les pratiques du séculier dans la construction de l'espace religieux. La discussion se centre sur deux types de pratiques spatiales du séculier : la définition du religieux digne d'une inscription dans l'espace et la gestion de la frontière mouvante entre espace public et espace privé. Comparant des groupes musulmans et des églises évangéliques dans leurs interactions avec la municipalité, l'autrice montre comment les pratiques et les sensibilités du séculier diffèrent en fonction des deux acteurs. Le niveau local constitue ainsi une modalité dynamique du séculier, permettant une constante construction et reconstruction du religieux dans l'espace. |
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| ISSN: | 1461-7404 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Social compass
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0037768618813774 |