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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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210867

Secularism and heterodoxy

Gauri Viswanathan

pp. 229-245

Abstract

This chapter is an attempt to think about secularization through the heterodox strains in religion, in such a way as to push back the history of secularism to a point before the consolidation of mainstream world religions. I contend that a focus on heterodoxies in religion complicates a straightforward binary opposition between secularism and religion and promotes a long view of history in which the heterogeneous fragments comprising religious formations are illuminated, leading to questions that challenge a chronology of secularism based on a narrative that reads the diminishing place of religion in public life as the catalyst for a secular outlook.

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Published in:

Cady Linell E., Shakman Hurd Elizabeth (2010) Comparative secularisms in a global age. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Pages: 229-245

DOI: 10.1057/9780230106703_14

Full citation:

Viswanathan Gauri (2010) „Secularism and heterodoxy“, In: L. E. Cady & E. Shakman Hurd (eds.), Comparative secularisms in a global age, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 229–245.