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Religion, Secularization, and Sacralization
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Casanova, José V. |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Abstract | Much of the difficulty in analyzing processes of secularization, religious transformation and sacralization in our global age derives from the tendency to use the dichotomous analytical categories sacred/profane, transcendent/immanent, and religious/secular, as if they would be synonymous and interchangeable, when in fact they correspond to historically distinctive, somewhat overlapping but not synonymous or equivalent social systems of classification. It is an open empirical question, which should be the central focus of a comparative-historical sociology of religion, how these three ongoing global processes of secularization, sacralization, and religious denominationalism are mutually interrelated in different civilizations, sometimes symbiotically as in the fusions of religious nationalisms, or in the religious defense of human rights, but often antagonistically as in the violent conflicts between the sacred secular immanent norms (of individual life and freedom) and transcendent theistic norms. Keywords:global secularization; religious denominationalism; religious nationalisms; religious transformation; sacralization; Western Christian secularization |
| Starting Page | 453 |
| Ending Page | 460 |
| Page Count | 8 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789004225350_030 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://brill.com/previewpdf/book/edcoll/9789004225350/B9789004225350-s030.xml |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004225350_030 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
