Introduction

After the Postsecular

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3260809
AutoresPeter Coviello (University of Illinois Chicago), Jared Hickman (Johns Hopkins University)
Ano2014
Volume86
Fascículo4
Páginas645-654
Data de publicação2014-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Literature (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-9831 • E-ISSN: 1527-2117
EditoraDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00029831-2811622
OpenAlexW2052817079
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas25
Referências citadas20

the notion that something called "secularization" provides an adequate conceptual framework for the post-Enlightenment movement of bodies and belief, of thought and authority, has come under sustained and multidimensional assault.We have become, as the term goes, postsecular, to the degree we understand those assaults to have been, finally, cumulatively, fatal.It's a fairly noncontroversial position at this point, as stated by Asad way back in 2003: "If anything is agreed upon, it is that a straightforward narrative of progress from the religious to the secular is no longer acceptable" (2003, 1).Disenchantment, a swing from superstition to rationality, credulity to skepticism, eschatological fanaticism to liberal tolerance: ours is a scholarly moment no longer persuaded by the clarities of these stories of modernity, nor by the neat dichotomies nested within them.So the secularization thesis is dead.This must be distinctly understood.To be clear, this sense of the postsecular does not carry with it a particular historical claim, as opposed to the desecularization narrative recently offered by the chastened secularization theorist

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