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Old Wine in a New Bottle: Navigating Religion and Politics in Turkiye

open access: yesReligions
While there is a large body of literature on different models of secularism and religion and politics, relatively scarce attention has been devoted to the experimentation of the moderate secularism model in authoritarian and Muslim-majority countries ...
Laçin İdil Öztığ   +1 more
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Desacralizing Secularism

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 1995
No Muslim endeavor to face the intellectual challenge of the western tradition can afford to ignore the critical discourse of postmodernism or fail to recognize the Nietzschean claim about truth's complicity with power.
Parvez Manzoor
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The challenge of secularism to religion: A South African Christian perspective [PDF]

open access: yesPharos Journal of Theology
Secularism worldwide poses great challenges to religion. It is as if the gates are open to reject religion. Secularism in many ways challenges the truth, morality, political power and social value provided by religions in general terms.
Pieter Verster
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Book review: Questioning secularism: Islam, sovereignty, and the rule of law in modern Egypt [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
"Questioning Secularism: Islam, Sovereignty, And The Rule Of Law In Modern Egypt." Hussein Ali Agrama. University of Chicago Press. November 2012. --- The central questions of the Arab uprisings—what is the appropriate relationship between religion and ...
Mullin, Corinna
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Muslims, Catholics, and the secular state [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Any attempt to explore the relationship between representations of Muslims and public advocacy in modern Western societies must at some point situate both processes in relation to the broader crises of liberal citizenship currently afflicting Western ...
Hefner, Robert William
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Queer configurations: The female divine, regional identity, and Queer‐religious belonging in South India

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
wiley   +1 more source

Membership‐Making in Diverse Societies: Revisiting the Idea of Society as a Common Possession

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The traditional aim of Western social democracy has been to create a society that is a ‘common possession’ of its members (in T.H. Marshall's words). Social democratic politics has therefore been both society‐making and membership‐making, orienting people to a shared society as an object of attachment and loyalty, and nurturing membership ...
Will Kymlicka
wiley   +1 more source

SECULARIZATION IN THE MIND OF MUSLIM REFORMISTS: A Case Study of Nurcholish Madjid and Fouad Zakaria

open access: yesJournal of Indonesian Islam, 2007
Nurcholish Madjid (Indonesia) and Fouad Zakaria (Egypt) represent the two most influential Muslim thinkers concerned with the issue of secularization. This article is a comparative analysis of their ideas, which have triggered intellectual debate on the ...
Mun’im Sirry
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Learning from secularism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
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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Book Review: The Crisis of Secularism in India [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
A review of The Crisis of Secularism in India edited by Anuradha Dingwaney Needham and Rajeswari Sunder ...
Bauman, Chad
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