Secularization in Max Weber. On current usefulness of re-accessing that old meaning

Pierucci, Antônio Flávio de Oliveira

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“…'This however means: taking away the magic or the disenchantment of the world.' Surely, this interpretation requires some poetic license, since it deviates from the precise technical meaning of this expression as used in Weber's writings, see Pierucci (2000Pierucci ( , 2013.…”

Section: Returns To the Sources Of Lifementioning

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Jacob’s Ladder: Logics of Magic, Metaphor and Metaphysics

Stern

2017

SOPHIA

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In this article, we discuss some issues concerning magical thinkingforms of thought and association mechanisms characteristic of early stages of mental development. We also examine good reasons for having an ambivalent attitude concerning the later permanence in life of these archaic forms of association, and the coexistence of such intuitive but informal thinking with logical and rigorous reasoning. At the one hand, magical thinking seems to serve the creative mind, working as a natural vehicle for new ideas and innovative insights, and giving form to heuristic arguments. At the other hand, it is inherently difficult to control, lacking effective mechanisms needed for rigorous manipulation. Our discussion is illustrated with many examples from the Hebrew Bible, and some final examples from modern science.Keywords Syllepsis · Paronomasia · Magical thinking · Heuristic arguments Love and marriage, Go together like a horse and carriage; This I tell you brother, You can't have one without the other.Try, try, try to separate them, It's an illusion; Try, try, try, and you will only come, To this conclusion.-Frank Sinatra, Sammy Cahn, and Jimmy van Heusen (1955).

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Section: Returns To the Sources Of Lifementioning

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Jacob’s Ladder: Logics of Magic, Metaphor and Metaphysics

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2017

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“…Secularisation took on an air of inexorability, purging all of the sacred from the public sphere of society, privatizing it (Pierucci, 1998). The advance of the secularisation of the public (and to a large extent, of the private) has implied and carried out the privatisation, or even certain elimination of religion 4 .…”

Section: Secularisation Democracy and Globalisation A Difficult Arrmentioning

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Poetic Religiosity in Brazilian Urban Peripheries

Nicolini¹

2017

JCRS

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Starting from the observation of a greater religious pluralism of the Brazilian society, we ask ourselves, in the first instance, if it is a movement does not present itself as a paradigmatic change. That is, if as beliefs underlying social relations in a binary world of identity exclusions would not be in a process of weakening, allowing us to perceive new ways of latent arrangements. In a second instance, after recognizing that plurality requires recognition of the freedoms of belief and expression, we question the limits of such freedom point to a cosmopolitan ethics. For that matter, we take as reference in the non-religions in the Brazilian urban peripheries. Keywords: pluralism, no religion, periphery SummaryStarting from the observation of a greater religious pluralism of the Brazilian society, we ask ourselves, in the first instance, if it is a movement does not present itself as a paradigmatic change. That is, if as beliefs underlying social relations in a binary world of identity exclusions would not be in a process of weakening, allowing us to perceive new ways of latent arrangements. In a second instance, after recognizing that plurality requires recognition of the freedoms of belief and expression, we question the limits of such freedom point to a cosmopolitan ethics. For that matter, we take as reference in the non-religions in the Brazilian urban peripheries.

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“…Until the end of last century State-religion relationship explanation in modern societies was dominated by a classical secularization theory, strongly influenced by Weberian sociology of modernity and rationalization (Pierucci, 2000). Secularization was understood as an inevitable result of modernization because this social change could only occur if public influence and religion relevance were sacrificed (Habermas, 2008: 6).…”

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Religion and State in Central Asia: A Comparative Regional Approach

Rodriguez¹

2023

IJSSRR

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This article analyzes Islamization process occurred in the five central Asian countries after their separation from Soviet Union in 1991, and ambivalent way in which authoritarian states reacted to this phenomenon to use it for political purposes and, at the same time, controlling its alleged subversive potencial. In this sense, article intends to demostrated that, with its particular nuances in each case, religion-State relationship after 1991 has been determinated by a triple contradiction between, first, the growing Islamic resurgence at societal level and states interest for using part of that religios simbolic capital to legitimize political regimes and prop up new national identities; second, between states' need to differentiate themselves from their former Soviet identity and their continuity attitude regarding power excersice and religion perception; and third, between states authoritarian nature, interested in excercising strict control over religius sphere, and the emergence of religius activism opposed to intervencionist and repressive governments policies, including the most radical forms of violent radicalism.

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Secularization in Max Weber. On current usefulness of re-accessing that old meaning

Cited by 6 publications

References 55 publications

Jacob’s Ladder: Logics of Magic, Metaphor and Metaphysics

Jacob’s Ladder: Logics of Magic, Metaphor and Metaphysics

Poetic Religiosity in Brazilian Urban Peripheries

Religion and State in Central Asia: A Comparative Regional Approach

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