Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: José Casanova – Rethinking Secularization: a Global Perspective. European anthropology and sociology have constructed a specific vision of secularization, in the context of a specific historical and cultural evolution by which the State separates itself from religion and draws it into the private sphere of social life. In other cultural environments, the modernization of society has not led to the exclusion of religion from the public sphere. José Casanova conceives secularization as a phenomenon characterized by pluralism. Thus, Europe can understand the future evolution of society, which is confronted with the presence of several active religions, against the backdrop of repression in the case of Christianity, due to secularization. State and ecclesiastical institutions or representatives of religions are called upon to understand the foundations underlying the new post-secular era.
Author: Alexander-Iuliu BUZALIC
Institution: Babeș-Bolyai University
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4406424143