RT Book
T1 The Disclosure of Politics: Struggles Over the Semantics of Secularization
T2 New Directions in Critical Theory
A1 Lara, Maria Pia
LA English
PP New York
PB Columbia University Press
YR 2013
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/769434711
AB María Pía Lara explores the ambiguity of secularization and the theoretical potential of a structural break between politics and religion. For Lara, secularization means the translation of religious semantics into politics; a transformation of religious notions into political ideas; and the reoccupation of a space left void by changing political actors, one that gives rise to new conceptions of political interaction. Conceptual innovation redefines politics as a horizontal relationship between governments and the governed, better enabling societies (and political actors) to articulate mea
NO Description based upon print version of record
CN BL65.P7 L34 2013
SN 9780231162807
K1 Secularization
K1 Electronic books