Postsecular Modernities: A Sociological Reading
Keywords:
multiple modernities, self-reflexivity, post-secular society, religious traditionsAbstract
‘Postsecular’ society is becoming a more and more widespread keyword in contemporary debates, within the philosophical as well as the sociological domains. Even if the word is not so new, it has gained a new conceptual relevance and specificity as a consequence of a deep scrutiny of classical theories of secularization. The paper takes for granted debates on theories of secularization, and tries to contribute to the clarification of the still vague notion of ‘postsecular society’, so far symptom of weaknesses of theories of secularization, or of a normative need for a fairer recognition of religious traditions in our liberal institutions. Working on Jürgen Habermas and Adam B. Seligman’s different but complementary theories of modernity, the paper tries to suggest a four-cells model to typify relationships between religious traditions and modernity, making more specific the constituive elements of the postsecular society.Downloads
References
Розати М. Турецкая лаборатория: локальная современность и постсекулярное в Турции //Государство, религия, церковь в России и за рубежом. 2012. № 1. С. 111-137.
Хабермас Ю. Между натурализмом и религией. Философские статьи/Пер. с нем. М. Б. Скуратова. М.: Издательство «Весь мир», 2011.
Amarasingam A. (2010) (Ed). Religion and the New Atheism. Leiden-Boston: Brill.
Arnason J. P., Eisenstadt, S. N., Wittrock, B. (eds) (2005) Axial Civilizations and World History. Leiden-Boston: Brill.
Backford J. A. (2003) Social Theory and Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Backford J. A. (2010). «The Uses of Religion in Public Institutions: The Cases of Prison», in Exploring the Postsecular. The Religious, the Political, the Urban, Arie, L., Molendijk, J. Beaumont, Christoph Jedan (Eds.), pp. 381-401. Leiden: Brill.
Berger P. (ed.) (1999) The Desecularization of the World. Resurgent Religion and World Politics. Washington: Eerdmans Publishing.
Borer M. I. (2010) «The New Atheism and the Secularization Thesis», in Religion and the New Atheism, pp. 125-137. Leiden-Boston: Brill.
Davie G. (2007) Sociology of Religion. London: Sage.
Eisenstadt S. N. (2003) Comparative Civilizations and Multiple Modernities. 2 Vol. Leiden: Brill.
Goldstein S. W. (2009). «Secularization Patterns in the Old Paradigm», Sociology of Religion 70, 2: 157-178.
Goldstein S. W. (2009) «Patterns of Secularization and Religious Rationalization in Emile Durkheim and Max Weber», Implicit Religion 12 (2): 135-163.
Göle N. (2005) Interpénétrations. Islam et l’Europe. Paris: Galaade Éditions.
Göle N., Ammann, L. (eds) (2006) Islam in Public. Turkey, Iran and Europe. Istanbul: Bilgi University Press.
Greve A. (2011) Sanctuaries of the City. Lessons from Tokyo. Farnham: Ashgate.
Habermas J. (1984) The Theory of Communicative Action. Boston: Beacon.
Habermas J. (1987) The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. Cambridge, Ma.: MIT.
Habermas J. (1996) Between Facts and Norms. Contributions to a Discoursive Theory of Law and Democracy. Oxford: Polity Press.
Habermas J. (2006) «The Secular Liberal State and Religion», in Political Theologies. Public Religions in a Post-Secular World. Eds. Hent de Vries and L. E. Sullivan, pp. 251-260. Fordham University Press.
Habermas J. (2009) «La rinascita della religione: una sfida per lautocomprensione laica della modernità?», in Religione e politica nella società post-secolare. Ed. A. Ferrara, pp. 24-41. Roma: Meltemi.
Knott K. (2005) The Location of Religion. A Spatial Analysis. London: Equinox.
Leezenberg M. (2010) «How Ethnocentric is the Concept of the Postsecular?», in Molendijk, A. L., Beaumont, J. and Jedan, Ch. (eds) Exploring the Postsecular. The Religious, the Political, the Urban, pp. 91-112. Leiden: Brill.
Martin B. (2010) «Contrasting Modernities: Postsecular Europe and Enspirited Latin America», in Molendijk, A. L., Beaumont, J. and Jedan, Ch. (eds) Exploring the Postsecular. The Religious, the Political, the Urban, pp. 63-89. Leiden: Brill.
McLennan G. (2007) «Towards a Postsecular Sociology?», Sociology 41: 857-870.
Rosati M. (2003) «The Making and Representing of Society», Journal of Classical Sociology 3: 29.
Rosati M. (2009) Ritual and the Sacred. A Neo-Durkheimian Analysis of Politics, Religion and the Self. Farnham: Ashgate.
Roy O. (1994) The Failure of Political Islam. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Seligman A. B. (1994) Innerwordly Individualism. New Brunswick: Transaction.
Seligman A. B. (2000) Modernity’s Wager. Authority, the Self and Transcendence. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Seligman A. B. (2004) Modest Claims. Dialogues and Essays on Tolerance and Tradition. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press.
Seligman A. B. et al. (2008) Ritual and Its Consequences. An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity. Oxford. Oxford University Press.
Shils E. (1974) Center and Periphery. Essays in Macro-sociology. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Taylor Ch. (2001) «Two Theories of Modernity», in Gaonkar, D. P. (ed.) Alternative Modernities, pp. 172-196. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
Taylor Ch. (2007) A Secular Age. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Thiebaut C. (2010) «Secularizing Traditional Catholicism: Laicims and laicité», Philosophy and Social Criticism 36 (3-4): 365-380 (special issue on Postsecularism and Multicultural Jurisdictions).
Wittrock B. (2005) «The Meaning of the Axial Age», in Axial Civilizations and World History, pp.51-85.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
How to Cite
Коды статьи
- EDN SBNPLB
- Тип статьи (РИНЦ) Научная статья (Научная статья)
