„Wir sind nie säkular gewesen“: Politische Theologie und die Geographien des Religiösen
In these afterthoughts to a themed issue on the <q>Geographies of Post-Secularity</q>, I critically interrogate the analytical purchase of the terminology of post-secularism. I suggest that the concept of the post-secular is ill-suited to provide a vocabulary for multi-religious soci...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Copernicus Publications
2018-05-01
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| Series: | Geographica Helvetica |
| Online Access: | https://www.geogr-helv.net/73/177/2018/gh-73-177-2018.pdf |
| Summary: | In these afterthoughts to a themed issue on the <q>Geographies of
Post-Secularity</q>, I critically interrogate the analytical purchase of
the terminology of post-secularism. I suggest that the concept of the
post-secular is ill-suited to provide a vocabulary for multi-religious
societies in the West as much as elsewhere. Instead, I suggest that the
vocabulary of a descriptive political theology (Assmann) better helps us
grasp the continuing negotiation of the dialectic relations between the
secular and the religious. I illustrate this conceptual vocabulary for the
study of religion and politics in the postcolonial world, first, in the
political-normative debates on Indian secularism, and second, in the everyday
struggles of religious actors in the violent politics of Sri Lanka's civil
war, to then return to debates on (post-) secularity. I conclude that,
indeed, we have never been secular – that the dialectic relations between
the secular and the religious are bound to remain, and to become further
complicated in increasingly multi-religious societies. |
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| ISSN: | 0016-7312 2194-8798 |