The Normative Power of Secularism. Tunisian Ennahda's Discourse on Religion, Politics, and the State (2011-2016)

By critically engaging the literature on the inclusion-moderation hypothesis, this paper seeks to show how the normative structure of secularism constitutes, enables, and restricts the discursive space in which Islamists can justify political action. It analyzes changes in Tunisian Ennahda's di...

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Subtitles:Symposium: Political Secularism and Religious difference in Western Europe, The Middle East, and North Africa
Main Author: Pfeifer, Hanna (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press [2019]
In: Politics and religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 12, Issue: 3, Pages: 478-500
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Tunisia / Ḥarakat an-Nahḍa / Secularism / Religion / State / Discourse / History 2011-2016
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
BJ Islam
KBL Near East and North Africa
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Summary:By critically engaging the literature on the inclusion-moderation hypothesis, this paper seeks to show how the normative structure of secularism constitutes, enables, and restricts the discursive space in which Islamists can justify political action. It analyzes changes in Tunisian Ennahda's discourse (2011-2016) as an attempt to navigate between standards of recognition imposed on them by the normative power of secularism on the one hand, and what they can convincingly integrate into their own platform on the other hand.
ISSN:1755-0491
Contains:Enthalten in: Politics and religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S1755048319000075