Political Theology and the Dialectics of (Counter)Secularization
This article builds on Habermas's hypothesis of a post-secular world society and on Voegelin's philosophy of consciousness. It first analyzes the genesis of the post-secular hypothesis in the work of Habermas. It then looks at the historical roots of the post-secular world society since th...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2013]
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Politics and religion
Year: 2013, Volume: 6, Issue: 4, Pages: 730-752 |
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Summary: | This article builds on Habermas's hypothesis of a post-secular world society and on Voegelin's philosophy of consciousness. It first analyzes the genesis of the post-secular hypothesis in the work of Habermas. It then looks at the historical roots of the post-secular world society since the Axial Age. Finally, it delineates the evolution of religious actors in modern societies, at the political and cognitive levels, focusing on the European Counter-revolutionaries, the Islamist and post-Islamist movements of the Middle East, and the Hindu Nationalists. The article concludes that Habermas's hypothesis provides a plausible alternative to neo-Schmittian theory of the Clash of Civilizations proposed by Huntington. |
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ISSN: | 1755-0491 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Politics and religion
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S1755048313000229 |