Beyond Comparing Secularisms

Jansen, Yolande

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“…[This] tends to hide from view all of the majority-minority relations, power inequalities, class and colonial history, everydayness, migration histories, histories of imaginaries, and stereotypes in intercultural memory that are relevant to understand the position of these minorities-as well as the genealogy of the concept of 'minority'. 53 To explain this further, I want to come back to Saba Mahmood's work in which she analyses the workings of the right to religious freedom in European law. Mahmood discusses several legal cases in which the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) decided in favour of states wanting to forbid the exercise of Islamic practice, mainly the wearing of the veil in public institutions.…”

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Exposing political theory’s theological roots: three caveats

Blijdenstein

2020

Patterns of Prejudice

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In this article Blijdenstein introduces recent reflections on secular liberalism's treatment of religion and critically discusses those genealogical approaches that centre on uncovering the hidden theological roots of the liberal framework. The claim that contemporary liberal ideas on, for example, religion, secularity and tolerance are in fact 'Christian' or 'Protestant' comes with its own set of problems, as it hides from view the importance of the different political and historical contexts in which these categories have played, and continue to play, a role. Blijdenstein formulates three caveats on critiques that focus on the persistence of theological categories.

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Exposing political theory’s theological roots: three caveats

Blijdenstein

2020

Patterns of Prejudice

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“…A study of Christian privilege, by contrast, focuses primarily on making explicit those hegemonic power relations that often remain invisible. This perspective raises different questions, including a critical view on the binary framework of opposing ‘religion’ and ‘secularism’ (see Jansen, 2017). Normative and policy questions follow only secondarily, and are aimed at reducing or eliminating the role of Christian privilege in perpetuating secular Christian hegemony and related forms of oppression.…”

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Religion, secularity, culture? Investigating Christian privilege in Western Europe

Lauwers

2022

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Scholarship on religious inequality in Europe has focused mainly on the position of religious minorities, primarily Jews and Muslims. Investigations into Islamophobia, antisemitism, and other forms of discrimination and oppression, however, are merely one side of the coin. This article draws attention to Christian privilege as a different, but related phenomenon. It understands ‘privilege’ to be part of the study of hegemony, as the asymmetrical counterpart of structural oppression. The article situates Christian privilege within secular Christian hegemony in Western Europe and explores its relation to racial and religious exclusion. It identifies three different types of Christian privilege and outlines a framework for normatively evaluating them.

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“…Centering supersessionism also helps to critically scrutinize the invention of what came to be termed 'religion' as (ideally) separable from 'secular' areas of life. To indicate that 'religion' and the 'secular' mutually constitute, produce, and control each other (Asad 2003;Mahmood 2005), scholars have termed the making of this divide, 'religio-secularism' (see Markus Dressler 2014;Dressler and Mandair 2016;and Jansen 2017). Rather than re-centering 'religion' and the 'secular' as key terms, the term religio-secularism helps to scrutinize the making of this separation, also in its relation to other political formations (Mufti 2007;Jansen 2013;Dhawan 2013).…”

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Race and Religion. Re-membering their displacements, supersessions, and geographies

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Race and Religion. Re-membering their Displacements, Supersessions, and Geographies The racial dimension of ‘Europe’s Muslim Question’ is often conceptualized in terms of ‘racialization of religion’: meaning that religious markers start to function as ‘race’. Race and religion then are approached as two separate formations, in which the one can obtain characteristics of the other. This dissertation however, departs from (re)conceptualizations of ‘religion’ (as coupled to the secular), and ‘race’ that takes seriously the theological underpinnings of both formations: of race-making (Anidjar 2014, Jennings 2010, Heschel 2008, Topolski 2018, Maldonado-Torres 2014, Chidester 2016) and of religio-secularism as the separation between ‘religion’ and the ‘secular’ ( Asad 2003, Masuzawa 2005, Carter 2008, Jansen 2013, Mahmood 2015). The crux is that religio-secularism makes ungraspable these very connections, since it separates theology (religion) from politics (secular) and religion from race. To re-member these divides, this dissertation centers a theological concept, Christian supersessionism, as a lens to establish new relationalities between political formations such as race/whiteness, religion/secularism, gender/sexuality, coloniality, ‘secular’ scholarship, and property in the re-making of ‘Europe’, the ‘New World’, (diasporic) ‘Africa’ and the ‘Orient’. The dissertation introduces amalgamated terms such as 'racial supersessionisms', 'supersessionist geographies', and 'supersessionist religio-secularisms' to re-connect theology and its political implications. This not only helps to investigate the interrelations between Christian supersessionism, race, gender, coloniality, and religio-secularism. These terms also help to differentiate between what is now merged under the rubric of ‘religion’: enabling distinctions between Christian supersessionism (as implicated in race-making and religio-secularism) and non-Christianity, or non-‘proper’-Christianity, as possible sources of decolonial practices and epistemologies.

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Beyond Comparing Secularisms

Cited by 31 publications

References 32 publications

Exposing political theory’s theological roots: three caveats

Exposing political theory’s theological roots: three caveats

Religion, secularity, culture? Investigating Christian privilege in Western Europe

Race and Religion. Re-membering their displacements, supersessions, and geographies

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