Understanding the geographies of religion and secularity: on the potentials of a broader exchange between geography and the (post-) secularity debate
<p>For a long time, the mainstream of social and cultural geography seems to have implicitly accepted that religion is becoming obsolete and is of little social significance. However, since the 1990s, religion has aroused new interest in the social sciences in general, and to some extent al...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Copernicus Publications
2018-10-01
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| Series: | Geographica Helvetica |
| Online Access: | https://www.geogr-helv.net/73/285/2018/gh-73-285-2018.pdf |
| Summary: | <p>For a long time, the mainstream of social and cultural geography seems to
have implicitly accepted that religion is becoming obsolete and is of little
social significance. However, since the 1990s, religion has aroused new
interest in the social sciences in general, and to some extent also in social
and cultural geography. Against this backdrop, a controversial discussion has
started in geography on the relevance of theories of secularisation and the
notion of post-secularity, as well as on possible contributions to these
debates. The paper introduces the interdisciplinary debate on revisions of
theories of secularisation and the promotion of post-secular perspectives,
referring, among others, to Jürgen Habermas, Peter Berger,
José Casanova, and Talal Asad. In a second step, we argue that an
understanding of post-secularity that focuses on the contingency and
context-dependent delimitation of the secular and the religious promises to
be fruitful for social and cultural geography and can help us to understand
the geographies of religion and secularity.</p> |
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| ISSN: | 0016-7312 2194-8798 |