This definition is quite different from the original meaning of secularism, as an immanent scientific worldview linked to anticlericalism. Anthropologist Talal Asad has connected nineteenth-century worldview secularism to twenty-first century political secularism through a genealogical account that stresses ...
What is secularism? In the following extract fromSecularism: Politics, Religion, and Freedom, Andrew Copson breaks down 3 different parts of the definition of secularism, its history, and how its meaning has developed over time. A good provisional modern definition is that adopted by the contempor...
society. Thus, in the examples I discuss below I particularly emphasise the agency of non-colonial and anti-colonial forces in the definition and practice of secularism in the colonial context. The attempt thereby is to move away from the fixation on the colonial state, its institutions, and b...
Self-cultivation is predicated on the definition of the self. What am I? This is a central question in western philosophical inquiry. Yet, none of the Chinese Classics, including the Tao Te Ching, addresses the nature of the self.
CSSS in its report last year stated that structural violence in the year 2019 manifested in the forms of the Citizenship Amendment Act- its very definition and implication on the gambit of citizenship in India. The state action against protesting students at Jam...
These come under ‘customary law’.However, custom, by definition is about history.It is about the past.It affirms culture and religion.If you want to dump the past, you can’t keep these things intact.But Sumanthiran and Mangala are quiet about such things. Why?
James Kennedy, who acknowledged that the commonplace first approach to defining religion – that it involves belief in God – does not include the various non-the- istic religions of the world, and thus a capacious definition like Tillich's would be most useful (Hand 1987, 30). This stance...
The primary split dated to the early 1850s and went to the definition of Secularism itself. Differen- ces in sexual policy may be understood in large part in terms of this fundamental split. From the beginning of the movement and creed, Holyoake had differenti- ated Secularism from the ...
The current global landscape forces scholars to reconsider not only once predominant understandings of secularization, but also the definition and implications of secular assumptions and secularist positions. The notion that there is no singular secularism, but rather a range of multiple secularisms, is...
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