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The origins of tolerant and repressive secularism: an analysis of the United States and France in comparative perspectives [PDF]

, 2021
In the field of political science, the term “secularism” is commonly understood as a statecraft doctrine that guarantees the separation between religion and state.
Atsü, Emre
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A Postsecular Poetics of Dislocation: Secularism and Religion in the Indian-American Poetry of Meena Alexander

Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media, 2021
This article examines the work of Indian-American poet Meena Alexander (1951-2018), one of postcolonial India’s foremost poets, and argues that Alexander’s combination of religion and secularism in her poetry gestures toward postsecular possibilities and
Manav Ratti
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Religious literacy for a secular age: approaches from secularism studies and affect theory [PDF]

, 2020
Religious literacy has become a widely invoked concept in scholarship, policy, popular discourse, and beyond. Since the 1990s, but more actively since 9/11, arguments in favor of training citizens to “get” religion and to understand why it matters “on ...
Ellis, Justine
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Revisiting secularism in theory and practice: Genealogy and cases

, 2020
This book offers a philosophical and macro-historical analysis of secularism, supported by an investigation of various contemporary cases. Starting with an in-depth theoretical discussion of the meaning of secularism, it subsequently presents a ...
Ünsar S., Eriş Ö.Ü.
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On multiple epistemologies of secularism: Toward a political economy critique

, 2020
The chapter has three main parts, the first of which sets out with the introduction of a dyadic category of secularism questioning the dominant paradigm that views secularism as a Western cognitive type.
Ünsar S., Seda Ünsar
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Nigeria and the quest for a secular state: The way forward

Nsukka Journal of Religion and Cultural Studies
The persistent influence of religion on Nigeria’s politics continues to cast aspersions on the state’s secularism. Nigeria is religiously pluralistic with adherents of Christianity and Islam differing on the notion of secularism.
Wendy Chinonyerem Benaiah, Oluwanifemi Pelumi Adeyemo   +1 more
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The Political Economy of Secularism in Turkey: Beyond Culturalist and Ideational Explanations

, 2020
Secularism and its historical development have been a tense issue in the political development and modernization of Turkey. When the historiography on the evolution of the Turkish type of secularism is analyzed, one could observe that fact it is ...
Cemil Boyraz, Boyraz, C.
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Caught between Islam and the West: secularism in the Kemalist discourse [PDF]

, 2011
This thesis identifies the defining signifiers for the Kemalist discourse as the West and Islam. Kemalism mainly related to the West through the hegemonic discourse of Orientalism, and the Kemalist attitude towards Islam was characterised by its peculiar
Çarmikli, E.S.
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The Pioneering Formulation of the Concepts of Secularity and Secularism in the Arab-Islamicate World(s): Butrus al-Bustani’s The Clarion of Syria

Religions, 2023
This paper critically discusses the pioneering formulation of secularity and secularism in the Arab-Islamicate world(s) found in Butrus al-Bustani’s The Clarion of Syria (1860–1861).
Housamedden Darwish
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Secularism and U.S. Religion Jurisprudence

, 2017
As recent headlines reveal, conflicts and debates around the world increasingly involve secularism. National borders and traditional religions cannot keep people in tidy boxes as political struggles, doctrinal divergences, and demographic trends are ...
Corbin, Caroline, Corbin, Caroline Mala
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