Habermas, Taylor, and Connolly on Secularism, Pluralism, and the Post-Secular Public Sphere
The main purpose of this paper is to explore and understand the relationships between secularism, pluralism, and the post-secular public sphere in the thought of Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, and William Connolly.
Spyridon Kaltsas
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Negotiating French Muslim Identities through Hip Hop [PDF]
In The French Melting Pot: Immigration, Citizenship, and National Identity, Gérard Noiriel contends that in France, the modern idea of the nation emerged as a means to subvert the dominant influence of the nobility, whose rule was underwritten by the ...
Nyawalo, Mich Yonah
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The return of faith and reason to laïcité; Régis Debray and 'le fait religieux' [PDF]
In 1985, Marcel Gauchet wrote of the ‘retour du religieux’ as an end to the social role of religion and the beginning of its privatisation. However, far from an indication of the withering of religion on the vine of modernity, the return of a religious ...
McCaffrey, E
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Freedom of Religion and Belief in India and Australia: An Introductory Comparative Assessment of Two Federal Constitutional Democracies [PDF]
This article considers the freedom of religion and belief (“free exercise”) in two secular federal constitutional democracies: India and Australia. Both constitutional systems emerged from the former British Empire and both continue in membership of the ...
Babie, Paul T., Bhanu, Arvind P.
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Islam in the Secular \u3cem\u3e Nomos \u3c/em\u3e of the European Court of Human Rights [PDF]
Since 2001 the European Court of Human Rights has decided a series of cases involving Islam and the claims of Muslim communities (both majorities and minorities) to freedom of religion and belief. This Article suggests that what is most interesting about
Danchin, Peter G
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The Secular Beyond: Free Religious Dissent and Debates over the Afterlife in Nineteenth-Century Germany [PDF]
The 1830s and 1840s saw the proliferating usage of “the Beyond” (Jenseits) as a choice term for the afterlife in German public discourse. This linguistic innovation coincided with the rise of empiricism in natural science.
Weir, Todd H.
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Learning from secularism [PDF]
The Uniting Church lives within a world-wide fellowship of Churches in which it will learn to sharpen its understanding of the will and purpose of God by contact with contemporary thought. Within that fellowship the Uniting Church also stands in relation
Jensen, A.
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‘A crooked, passion-laden mirror’: ‘Jews’ and ‘Muslims’ as a European question beyond religio-secularism [PDF]
Yolande Jansen
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This article explores the configurations of secularism present in the parliamentary debate on the voluntary termination of pregnancy bill in 2018, and in some specific areas of feminist activism in which secularism is discussed and promoted, collected in
Karina Felitti, Sol Prieto
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Did secularism win out? The debate over the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [PDF]
The debate over the 2008 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill marks the latest in a series of conflicts between secularism and religion in the public sphere.
Kettell, Steven
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