Graeme Smith, A Short History of Secularismdoi:10.1558/poth.v11i1.165Creston DavisPolitical Theology
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The genealogy of a political practice is thus referred to a history of concepts. It appears thus as the shaping of an idea, in the long time of collective struggles, through a process which must be permanently reactivated not to be put in ques- tion: the Republic, even when it is ...
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As such, the killings of Sikhs at Oak Creek are better understood as the most recent in a long history of Western subjugation of non-white (non-heterosexual male) communities, bringing to the fore the continued injustices of a neo-colonial global- ized economy dominated by the Euro-American...
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In his ‘Unthinkable’ column last week, the Irish Times journalist Joe Humphries suggested that the Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, should draw inspiration from Ireland’s history of Christian scholarship when he visits President Donald Trump in Washington on St Patrick’s Day next month. “He should...
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In this case, however, it massively circulated a short-sighted vision of colonialism and decolonization, which was associated with the experiences of other European countries and disconnected from national history. The impulse to help did not develop around a public discussion about Spain’s ...
See Madan, “Secularism,” 298. According to Ashis Nandy, Holyoake coined it in 1850, a time when it was still “accommodative of religion.” See his “The Politics of Secularism and the Re-covery of Religious Tolerance,” in Secularism and Its Critics, 327. The Thirty Years’ War was...