Some Thoughts on the State of Secularity in the Lowlands

According to Peter Berger, “explaining European secularity, especially its contrast with the United States, is one of the most interesting topics for study.” As an American expat and scholar of contemporary American literature, this essay will address my own “intellectual curiosity” about European s...

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Autor principal: Milota, Megan (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
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Publicado: Johns Hopkins University Press [2018]
En: Christianity & literature
Año: 2018, Volumen: 67, Número: 3, Páginas: 531-547
Clasificaciones IxTheo:AB Filosofía de la religión
KBD Benelux
TK Período contemporáneo
Otras palabras clave:B Jürgen Habermas
B Secularity
B Higher Education
B depillarization
B Laïcité
B Secularization (Theology)
B Europe
B HABERMAS, Jurgen, 1929-
B Netherlands
B Belgium
B Religión
B Cultural Studies
B Secularism
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Sumario:According to Peter Berger, “explaining European secularity, especially its contrast with the United States, is one of the most interesting topics for study.” As an American expat and scholar of contemporary American literature, this essay will address my own “intellectual curiosity” about European secularity: what kind of work it fosters and enables, and what it does not. In particular, I will focus on the pervasive secular “progress narrative” that continues to be protected and preserved in different academic departments at universities in Belgium and The Netherlands for various historical and cultural reasons, including those related to depillarization and laïcité.
ISSN:2056-5666
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0148333117732545