Japheth's World
The Rise of Secularism and the Revival of Religion Today
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3969819 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephanie Glendinning (0000-0002-2312-1839, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author), Simon Glendinning |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 409-426 |
| Publication date | 2009-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The European Legacy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1084-8770 • E-ISSN: 1470-1316 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10848770902999500 |
| OpenAlex | W2123638276 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
This essay explores what it means to say that we live today in “a secular age.” A distinction between two kinds of secularism is introduced and the proposal is made that the secularity that characterises our age belongs to a distinctively Graeco-Christian heritage. This proposal is elaborated and developed in the context of the Nietzschean pronouncement of the death of God and against the background of the decline in theodicial conceptions of history. However, rather than see these issues as connected to a growing nihilism in European society or in terms of a movement towards a widespread atheism, they are interpreted, in many respects optimistically, in terms of the awakening and ongoing movement of a distinctively democratic desire
Aesthetics · Atheism · Democracy · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Nihilism · Political science · Politics · Secular state · Secularism · Secularity · Secularization · Sociology · History · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,36 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2023 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |