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"'Secularization' sounds simple, a decline in the power of religion. Yet, the history of the term is controversial and multi-faceted; it has been useful to both religious believers and non-believers and has been deployed by scholars to make sense of a variety of aspects of cultural and social change. This book will introduce the reader to this variety and show how secularization bears on the contemporary politics of religion. Secularization addresses the sociological classics' ambivalent accounts of the future of religion, later and more robust sociological claims about religious decline, and the most influential philosophical secularization thesis, which says that the dominant ideas of modern thought are in fact religious ones in a secularized form. The book outlines some shortcomings of these accounts in the light of historical inquiry and comparative sociology; examines claims that some religions are 'resistant to secularization'; and analyses controversies in the politics of religion, in particular over the relationship between Christianity and Islam and over the implicitly religious character of some modern political movements. By giving equal attention to both sociological and philosophical accounts of secularization, and equal weight to ideas, institutions and practices, this book introduces complicated ideas in a digestible format. It will appeal to students and scholars interested in making unusual connections within sociology, anthropology, philosophy, theology and political theory"--

Secularization. --- Secularism.

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"Les pouvoirs du sacré pose une question brûlante : celle de la place persistante du sacré et de la religion dans la vie sociale contemporaine. Ni une vision linéaire de la sécularisation comme déclin progressif et mondial de la religion, ni une compréhension mystique du "retour du religieux" ne conviennent pour appréhender ce phénomène complexe. Hans Joas parcourt, synthétise et discute les grands paradigmes qui ont été élaborés par la philosophie et la sociologie, depuis le XVIIIe siècle, pour penser la vie religieuse. En discussion critique avec Max Weber, Joas construit une alternative au récit du "désenchantement du monde". Il estime qu'une compréhension du devenir de la religion ne peut se séparer d'une interprétation des tensions entre le politique et le religieux, l'État et les Églises, qui ont paradoxalement créé des interstices dans lesquels les individus ont pu construire leur liberté et redéfinir leur vie en commun. Il s'agit aussi d'un livre engagé en faveur d'un universalisme des droits de la personne qui se traduirait, au plan théologico-politique, par le double rejet des théocraties et des dictatures laïques, et par une mise en garde contre la tentation d'une "auto-sacralisation de l'Europe" contre l'islam.".

Religion and politics. --- Secularization (Theology)

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Monasteries --- Secularization --- History --- Sources --- History --- Sources

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This book thematizes the tension between education, politics, and religion in Norway after the Second World War, with an emphasis on the years between 1945 and 1970, and throws a new light on Norwegian school and education in the post-war period. The Norwegian educational landscape in the years after the Second World War must be seen against the development of the welfare state, and it appears as a part of the social democracy project typical for Norway at that time. The Labour Party, which held a prominent position in the educational landscape in the post-war decades, is normally regarded to have been an important driving force behind secularization of schools in Norway, not least because the total number of weekly lessons in religious education gradually was reduced. This book problematizes this thesis and enlightens how important politicians and policymakers within the Labour Party defended religious education. A central point is that this defense must be seen within the frames of a liberally oriented protestant theology. Thus, the study highlights the diversity of ideas in Norwegian politics in the post-war period and demonstrates how important impulses in Norwegian politics can be viewed against a wider international background.

HISTORY / General. --- Cultural history. --- Norway. --- education. --- secularization.