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Recognizing the Non-religious - Reimagining the Secular (Hardcover)
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Recognizing the Non-religious - Reimagining the Secular (Hardcover)
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In recent years, the extent to which contemporary societies are
secular has come under scrutiny. At the same time, many countries,
especially in Europe, have increasingly large nonaffiliate,
'subjectively secular' populations, whilst nonreligious cultural
movements like the New Atheism and the Sunday Assembly have come to
prominence. Making sense of secularity, irreligion, and the
relationship between them has therefore emerged as a crucial task
for those seeking to understand contemporary societies and the
nature of modern life. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in
southeast England, Recognizing the Non-religious develops a new
vocabulary, theory and methodology for thinking about the secular.
It distinguishes between separate and incommensurable aspects of
so-called secularity as insubstantial - involving merely the
absence of religion - and substantial - involving beliefs, ritual
practice, and identities that are alternative to religious ones.
Recognizing the cultural forms that present themselves as
non-religious therefore opens up new, more egalitarian and more
theoretically coherent ways of thinking about people who are 'not
religious'. It is also argued that recognizing the nonreligious
allows us to reimagine the secular itself in new and productive
ways. This book is part of a fast-growing area of research that
builds upon and contributes to theoretical debates concerning
secularization, 'desecularization', religious change,
postsecularity and postcolonial approaches to religion and
secularism. As well as presenting new research, this book gathers
insights from the wider studies of nonreligion, atheism, and
secularism in order to consolidate a theoretical framework,
conceptual foundation and agenda for future research.
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