Making sense of the postsecular

dc.citation.epage116en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber1en_US
dc.citation.spage98en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber21en_US
dc.contributor.authorParmaksız, U.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-21T16:07:15Z
dc.date.available2019-02-21T16:07:15Z
dc.date.issued2018en_US
dc.departmentDepartment of Political Science and Public Administrationen_US
dc.description.abstractThis article critically examines the postsecular literature with the aim of dispelling the scepticism about the concept’s theoretical import, critical power and analytical utility. It first presents an overview of the literature identifying two major fields, social theology and politics, within which three major critical leitmotifs are developed: (1) disenchantment and the loss of community; (2) the impossibility of absolute secularity; and (3) the exclusion of religion from the public sphere. In the second section, the shortcomings of problematizations (1) and (2) are highlighted, originating from social theology, and it is argued that they have limited critical potential as they intend to renaturalize the religious. Instead, it is asserted that the concept has critical power when used within the context of a postreligious denaturalization of the secular. In the last section, the focus shifts to the analytical utility of the concept, and the article examines ‘postsecular society’ and ‘postsecularization’ in the light of the previous discussion.
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dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1368431016682743
dc.identifier.issn1368-4310
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/50355
dc.language.isoEnglish
dc.publisherSAGE Publications
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://doi.org/10.1177/1368431016682743
dc.source.titleEuropean Journal of Social Theoryen_US
dc.subjectcritical theoryen_US
dc.subjectPostsecularismen_US
dc.subjectSeculanormativityen_US
dc.subjectSecularizationen_US
dc.subjectSocial theologyen_US
dc.titleMaking sense of the postsecularen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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