Humanist Organizations and Secularization in Germany
Among social scientists, humanist and freethinker organizationsare often described as secularizing agents within society with a critical andconfrontational relation to religions. This article provides a re-evaluation ofthis theory with respect to a contemporary example of German freigeistigorganizat...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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WVU
2017
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Religion and society in Central and Eastern Europe
Année: 2017, Volume: 10, Numéro: 1, Pages: 21-34 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Allemagne
/ Humanistischer Verband Deutschlands
/ Freigeistige Aktion / Deutscher Monistenbund
/ Religion
/ Laïcité
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophie de la religion AD Sociologie des religions KBB Espace germanophone |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Secularization
B Freethought B Humanism B Religio-politics B Non-religion |
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| Résumé: | Among social scientists, humanist and freethinker organizationsare often described as secularizing agents within society with a critical andconfrontational relation to religions. This article provides a re-evaluation ofthis theory with respect to a contemporary example of German freigeistigorganizations, the German Humanist Association (Humanistischer VerbandDeutschlands[HVD]). Through being incorporated into German religio-political arrangements, the author argues, the HVD rather imitates religion,thereby unfolding secularization-opposing effects. Drawing on a groundedtheory-based analysis of found data as well as interviews and participantobservations, and with reference to the comparative frameworks regardingmultiple secularities' (Burchardt/Wohlrab-Sahr) or different modes ofnonreligion' (Quack), the article concludes by distinguishing two differenttypes of freigeistig organizations in contemporary Germany, only one ofwhich can by described as a secularizing agent. |
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| ISSN: | 1553-9962 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Religion and society in Central and Eastern Europe
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