Some Thoughts on the State of Secularity in the Lowlands

According to Peter Berger, “explaining European secularity, especially its contrast with the United States, is one of the most interesting topics for study.” As an American expat and scholar of contemporary American literature, this essay will address my own “intellectual curiosity” about European s...

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1. VerfasserIn: Milota, Megan (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Johns Hopkins University Press [2018]
In: Christianity & literature
Jahr: 2018, Band: 67, Heft: 3, Seiten: 531-547
RelBib Classification:AB Religionsphilosophie; Religionskritik; Atheismus
KBD Beneluxländer
TK Neueste Zeit
weitere Schlagwörter:B Jürgen Habermas
B Secularity
B Higher Education
B depillarization
B Laïcité
B Secularization (Theology)
B Europe
B Religion
B HABERMAS, Jurgen, 1929-
B Netherlands
B Belgium
B Cultural Studies
B Secularism
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Zusammenfassung:According to Peter Berger, “explaining European secularity, especially its contrast with the United States, is one of the most interesting topics for study.” As an American expat and scholar of contemporary American literature, this essay will address my own “intellectual curiosity” about European secularity: what kind of work it fosters and enables, and what it does not. In particular, I will focus on the pervasive secular “progress narrative” that continues to be protected and preserved in different academic departments at universities in Belgium and The Netherlands for various historical and cultural reasons, including those related to depillarization and laïcité.
ISSN:2056-5666
Enthält:Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0148333117732545