http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif Secularism, religion, and the public sphere Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:26:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2007/12/07/the-great-separation/ http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2007/12/07/the-great-separation/#comments Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:38:27 +0000 José Casanova http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2007/12/07/the-great-separation/ One should be suspicious of any argument that presents the multiple alternatives facing contemporary societies around the world today as a simple binary choice between theocratic political theology (i.e., religious fanaticism) and secular political philosophy (i.e., liberal toleration). To present such a dichotomous alternative, as "the two ways of envisaging the human condition," not only ignores the many other complex ways in which Western and non-Western societies have envisaged the human condition, but it views societies as individual actors facing existential choices, a rhetorically dramatic but rather problematic conception of human history and of the human condition.]]> http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2007/12/07/the-great-separation/feed/ 1 http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2007/10/25/secular-secularizations-secularisms/ http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2007/10/25/secular-secularizations-secularisms/#comments Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:23:14 +0000 José Casanova http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2007/10/25/secular-secularizations-secularisms/ http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2007/10/25/secular-secularizations-secularisms/feed/ 0