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

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3030540480 ISBN 13: 9783030540487

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

Synopsis

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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About the Author

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

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

From the Back Cover

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030540480
• ISBN 13: 9783030540487
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 348
• Editor: Karpov Vyacheslav, Svensson Manfred