secularism Flashcards

theology: the challenge of secualrism.

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Effect of 9/11.

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  • Challenged the idea of endism in the west.
  • Revitalised the belief in irrationality of religion.
  • Challenged western idea of religion as a private matter.
  • Emphasised entanglement of religion and politics.
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Procedural secularism.

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The state should take into account all perspectives, but with no preference and complete equality between religion and non-religious people.

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Programmatic secularism.

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Religion should be removed from the public sphere and authorities should take a purely secular role.

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Barack Obama quote on secularism.

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“Democracy demands that the religiously motivated must translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific values.”

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Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, book and analysis.

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‘Faith in the Public Sphere’, promotes procedural secularism as a Christian idea and something that should be embraced by Christians as an opprunity to share the gospel and prevent the ‘privitisation of faith’.

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La laïcité.

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French principle separating Church and state, with a programmatic approach to religion.

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Secularisation.

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Process of actively secularising society through removing religion from the public sphere.

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