Secularization, Desecularization, and Toleration: Cross-Disciplinary Challenges to a Modern Myth - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 3030540480 ISBN 13: 9783030540487

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

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This book challenges the modern myth that tolerance grows as societies become less religious. The myth inseparably links the progress of toleration to the secularization of modern society. This volume scrutinizes this grand narrative theoretically and empirically, and proposes alternative accounts of the varied relationships between diverse interpretations of religion and secularity and multiple secularizations, desecularizations, and forms of toleration. The authors show how both secular and religious orthodoxies inform toleration and persecution, and how secularizations and desecularizations engender repressive or pluralistic regimes. Ultimately, the book offers an agency-focused perspective which links the variation in toleration and persecution to the actors of secularization and desecularization and their cultural programs.

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Vyacheslav Karpov is Professor of Sociology at Western Michigan University, USA.

Manfred Svensson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Andes, Chile.

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This book challenges the modern myth that tolerance grows as societies become less religious. The myth inseparably links the progress of toleration to the secularization of modern society. This volume scrutinizes this grand narrative theoretically and empirically, and proposes alternative accounts of the varied relationships between diverse interpretations of religion and secularity and multiple secularizations, desecularizations, and forms of toleration. The authors show how both secular and religious orthodoxies inform toleration and persecution, and how secularizations and desecularizations engender repressive or pluralistic regimes. Ultimately, the book offers an agency-focused perspective which links the variation in toleration and persecution to the actors of secularization and desecularization and their cultural programs.

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• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3030540480
• ISBN 13: 9783030540487
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352
• Herausgeber: Karpov Vyacheslav, Svensson Manfred
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