عنوان

The Superstition, Secularism, and Religion Trinary:

شماره

LA121554

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

The Superstition, Secularism, and Religion Trinary:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

Or Re-Theorizing Secularism

نام نخستين پديدآور

Jason Ānanda Josephson-Storm

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

While a generation of theorists assumed that secularization was a necessary outcome of modernization, a newer group of scholars have argued that Western Christendom constructed a normative binary opposition between the "religious" and the "secular," which it then attempted to impose globally. This putative binary has been interrogated in a number of ways. This paper articulates a productive recent line of approach, I initially proposed in The Invention of Religion in Japan, 2012, which was to introduce a third term-"superstition"-into the model. Succinctly put, "superstition" was often seen as both the false double of "religion" and a crucial enemy of scientific truth and the secular state. Thus, I argue focusing on the excluded term in this trinary can provide insights into the way in which all three categories are mutually constituted. It also opens the door for the re-theorization of "secularism" and its historic ideological features. While a generation of theorists assumed that secularization was a necessary outcome of modernization, a newer group of scholars have argued that Western Christendom constructed a normative binary opposition between the "religious" and the "secular," which it then attempted to impose globally. This putative binary has been interrogated in a number of ways. This paper articulates a productive recent line of approach, I initially proposed in The Invention of Religion in Japan, 2012, which was to introduce a third term-"superstition"-into the model. Succinctly put, "superstition" was often seen as both the false double of "religion" and a crucial enemy of scientific truth and the secular state. Thus, I argue focusing on the excluded term in this trinary can provide insights into the way in which all three categories are mutually constituted. It also opens the door for the re-theorization of "secularism" and its historic ideological features.

تاريخ نشر

2018

توصيف ظاهري

1-20

عنوان

Method & Theory in the Study of Religion

شماره جلد

30/1

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1570-0682

اصطلاح موضوعی

enlightenment

اصطلاح موضوعی

ideology

اصطلاح موضوعی

Japan

اصطلاح موضوعی

religion

اصطلاح موضوعی

science

اصطلاح موضوعی

secularism

اصطلاح موضوعی

superstition

اصطلاح موضوعی

trinary

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Jason Ānanda Josephson-Storm

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15700682-12341409

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y