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The Secular Paradox - On the Religiosity of the Not Religious (Hardcover)
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The Secular Paradox - On the Religiosity of the Not Religious (Hardcover)
Series: Secular Studies
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A radically new way of understanding secularism which explains why
being secular can seem so strangely religious For much of
America’s rapidly growing secular population, religion is an
inescapable source of skepticism and discomfort. It shows up in
politics and in holidays, but also in common events like weddings
and funerals. In The Secular Paradox, Joseph Blankholm argues that,
despite their desire to avoid religion, nonbelievers often seem
religious because Christianity influences the culture around them
so deeply. Relying on several years of ethnographic research among
secular activists and organized nonbelievers in the United States,
the volume explores how very secular people are ambivalent toward
belief, community, ritual, conversion, and tradition. As they try
to embrace what they share, secular people encounter, again and
again, that they are becoming too religious. And as they reject
religion, they feel they have lost too much. Trying to strike the
right balance, secular people alternate between the two sides of
their ambiguous condition: absolutely not religious and part of a
religion-like secular tradition. Blankholm relies heavily on the
voices of women and people of color to understand what it means to
live with the secular paradox. The struggles of secular
misfits—the people who mis-fit normative secularism in the United
States—show that becoming secular means rejecting parts of life
that resemble Christianity and embracing a European tradition that
emphasizes reason and avoids emotion. Women, people of color, and
secular people who have left non-Christian religions work against
the limits and contradictions of secularism to create new ways of
being secular that are transforming the American religious
landscape. They are pioneering the most interesting and important
forms of secular “religiosity” in America today.
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