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“The Post-Secular City” is the first attempt to systematically map and assess the recent debate about secularization. “The Post-Secular City” examines the alleged shift from a “secular” to a “post-secular” dispensation from the perspective of the ongoing de-construction of the secularization “theorem” (as Hans Blumenberg called it). Accordingly, the new secularization debate is described as being polarized between the “de-constructors” and the “maintainers” of the standard thesis of secularization. This is the assumption underlying an ambitious effort to map the field, which consists of a long introduction where “secularization” is analyzed as a deeply problematic concept-of-process and of eight chapters in which several protagonists of the recent debate are discussed as crucial junctions of a multidisciplinary conversation.

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Theology and World Christianity. --- Postsecularism.

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À un « moment où les groupes de recherche universitaire dédiés à l’étude de la littérature missionnaire se multiplient dans l’espace francophone » (Claude Prudhomme), le besoin s’est fait sentir d’un instrument commun pour mieux comprendre le phénomène de la diffusion et de l’inculturation du christianisme sans cesse renouvelé depuis vingt siècles, les missions ayant été en quelque sorte « un des premiers agents de globalisation » (Alberto Melloni). Éditée par Karthala, la revue Histoire, monde et cultures religieuses (anciennement Histoire & Missions Chrétiennes) a été créée en 2007 dans ce but par l’Association des chercheurs de la revue « Histoire et Missions Chrétiennes » érigée en association Loi 1901. S’il fallait résumer de façon schématique ce qui est au cœur du projet de HMC, nous pourrions en décliner la méthode en trois points : Une discipline scientifique : l’histoire, mais dans l’interdisciplinarité ; Un champ spécifique : les missions chrétiennes, mais au sens large ; Un choix : publier en français, mais traduit du monde entier. HMC ne s’intéresse pas uniquement à l’histoire contemporaine (XIXe-XXIe siècles) mais à tout l’arc temporel et spatial de la diffusion du christianisme à travers l’histoire, des origines à nos jours et dans tous les continents (y compris l’Europe), à raison de quatre numéros par an. L’histoire n’est pas que la poussière du passé, et on ne s’y intéresse, dans le fond, qu’en raison des questions qui taraudent notre présent : en font partie la question des religions du monde et celle du rapport des religions entre elles. Ce qui s’est passé depuis vingt siècles à travers les missions chrétiennes pourrait-t-il donc nous donner à penser pour aujourd’hui et pour demain ? C’est ce que nous croyons à Histoire, monde et cultures religieuses.

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Religions --- Secularism --- Ethics --- Irreligion --- Utilitarianism --- Atheism --- Postsecularism --- Secularization (Theology)

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Over the last few decades, politicians in Europe and North America have fiercely debated the effects of a growing Muslim minority on their respective national identities. Some of these countries have prohibited Islamic religious coverings in public spaces and institutions, while in others, legal restriction remains subject to intense political conflict. Seeking to understand these different outcomes, social scientists have focused on the role of countries' historically rooted models of nationhood and their attendant discourses of secularism. Emily Laxer's Unveiling the Nation problematizes this approach. Using France and Quebec as illustrative cases, she traces how the struggle of political parties for power and legitimacy shapes states' responses to Islamic signs. Drawing on historical evidence and behind-the-scenes interviews with politicians and activists, Laxer uncovers unseen links between structures of partisan conflict and the strategies that political actors employ when articulating the secular boundaries of the nation. In France's historically class-based political system, she demonstrates, parties on the left and the right have converged around a restrictive secular agenda in order to limit the siphoning of votes by the ultra-right. In Quebec, by contrast, the longstanding electoral salience of the “national question” has encouraged political actors to project highly conflicting images of the province's secular past, present, and future. At a moment of heightened debate in the global politics of religious diversity, Laxer's Unveiling the Nation sheds critical light on the way party politics and its related instabilities shape the secular boundaries of nationhood in diverse societies.

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Secularism --- Ethics --- Irreligion --- Utilitarianism --- Atheism --- Postsecularism --- Secularization (Theology) --- Political aspects

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Cem anos depois da Implantação da República, são muitas as heranças dosideais republicanos que ainda suscitam o debate público: o laicismo nas escolase nas instituições públicas, a educação para a cidadania, a liberdade deimprensa, a igualdade de oportunidades, a mobilidade social, o diálogo para adiversidade. Por todos estes motivos, o Grupo 5 do CEIS 20 (Centro de EstudosInterdisciplinares do Século XX) promoveu uma ampla discussão em torno daquelasquestões, no 3º Colóquio Internacional «1910-2010: comunicação e educação republicanas»,que teve lugar em outubro de 2010.

Neste livro, reunimos uma parte significativa dos contributos desseencontro, desde conferências plenárias da autoria de reconhecidos estudiosos eacadémicos nacionais, a comunicações livres provenientes das mais diversasinvestigações realizadas em universidades nacionais e estrangeiras.

Estruturámos o livro em três partes, correspondentes a áreas temáticasautónomas. Assim, num primeiro momento – OsHomens e a República – publicam-se os textos dedicados a perfis epersonalidades marcantes da I República, permitindo-nos destacar a magistralconferência do Historiador Luís Reis Torgal sobre António José de Almeida. Asegunda parte – Os Media e a República– inicia-se com um estudo circunstanciado da Professora Felisbela Lopes sobre ahistória de 50 anos de televisão pública em Portugal e contém muitos outroscontributos, essencialmente dedicados

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Secularism. --- Ethics --- Irreligion --- Utilitarianism --- Atheism --- Postsecularism --- Secularization (Theology)

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Stephen Strehle is a leading scholar of church/state issues. In this volume, he focuses his rigorous historical analysis and philosophical acumen upon a topic of great interest today and source of cultural wars around the globe-the process of secularization. The book starts with a discussion of early capitalism and how it saw the real world functioning well-enough on its own principles of individual struggle and self-interest, without needing religious or moral principles to meddle in its affairs and eventually dispelling the need for any intelligent design or providential orchestration of life through the work of Darwin. The book then discusses the growth of the secular point of view: how historians dismissed the impact of religion in developing modern culture, how scientists conceived of the universe running on self-sufficient or mechanistic principles, and how people no longer looked to the providential hand of God to explain their suffering. The book ends with a discussion of how the Deist concept of human autonomy became a political policy in America through Jefferson's concept of a wall of separation between church and state and how the US Supreme Court proceeded to dismiss the importance of religion in shaping or justifying the values of the nation and its laws. The book is accessible to most upper-level and graduate students in a wide-variety of disciplines, keeping technical and foreign words to a minimum and leaving scholarly details or debates to its extensive notes.

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Secularism. --- Ethics --- Irreligion --- Utilitarianism --- Atheism --- Postsecularism --- Secularization (Theology) --- Religion --- Christianity --- Literature & The Arts