The Other Secular Modern: An Empirical Critique of Asad

Talal Asad explains the marginalization of religion in liberal democracies by invoking the modern state's desire to control. This paper argues that, in the Anglophone world, self-conscious secularism played little or no part in the secularization of public life. The expansion of the secular sph...

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Main Author: Bruce, Steve 1954- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Berghahn [2013]
In: Religion and society
Year: 2013, Volume: 4, Issue: 1, Pages: 79-92
Further subjects:B Diversity
B church-state relations
B Talal Asad
B marginalization of religion
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