Can We Move Beyond the Secular State?

Watson, Brenda

doi:10.3390/rel6041457

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“…When each of the two tries to escape the other, it generates its own problems. Watson (2015Watson ( :1459 meticulously maintains that in g enhancing principles of democracy, secularisation violates the same principles it propagates. For example, democracy presupposes pluralism, and to privatise religion is essentially the exclusion of it from public plural life.…”

Section: Lesotho's Contextmentioning

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Integration of citizenship education with religious education in Lesotho secondary schools

Mokotso

2019

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The current article fervently acknowledges the general agreement that Lesotho had never experienced a stable democracy ever since the ultimate attainment of political independence in 1966. Among other possible solutions proposed to the problem of Lesotho’s democratic instability, citizenship education dominates government documents and various works regarding the political discourse. Although there is this pervasive recognition of the needed political educational intervention, there is no explicit direction on how to properly introduce the envisaged citizenship education. The article valiantly attempts bridging this visible gap by carefully probing the published literature to propose the meaningful integration of citizenship education with religious education. The discussion was guided by the critical use of the post-secular theoretical framework. The article highlights that, coupled with post-Christianity, post-secular theory undoubtedly provided a workable framework for the meaningful integration of secular (political citizenship) and religious essences for the promotion of democratic stability in Lesotho. The article logically concludes by showing that the proposed integration of citizenship education in religious education is within acceptable philosophical modes of proper education.

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Section: Lesotho's Contextmentioning

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Integration of citizenship education with religious education in Lesotho secondary schools

Mokotso

2019

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“…However, in somewhat popular (Watson 2015) as much as in academic circles -with Benson (e.g. 2010Benson (e.g.…”

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Sensing a 'second coming': An overview of new concepts in Sociology, Philosophy, Law and Theology on the re-emerging religious in private and public life

Lombaard

2016

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In a number of academic disciplines, expression has been given to the recently rising awareness that the category of the religious has not disappeared from public life. What the �masters of suspicion� � Feuerbach, Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, Durkheim and Freud � had sensed was the intellectual spirit of their times and not the dawning of a broadly post-religious phase in Western/ised humanity. In different academic disciplines, this new awareness has been given expression to by means of a series of newly developed concepts. In this contribution, these developments are briefly tracked as they relate to one another. Although these formulations and discussions in some ways correspond to one another, it has not yet been undertaken to relate them to one another, which is the contribution of this article: these developments reflect, as largely parallel expressions, the recently rising awareness that the category of the religious is currently present in private and public life more so than in previous decades.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: This article traces recent developments in Sociology, Philosophy, Law and Theology on the unfolding place of religion in the world currently, as a first step to bringing these disciplines into discussion with one another on this matter.Keywords: Religiosity; Post-secularism; Sociology; Philisophy; Law; Theology

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Can We Move Beyond the Secular State?

Cited by 2 publications

References 7 publications

Integration of citizenship education with religious education in Lesotho secondary schools

Integration of citizenship education with religious education in Lesotho secondary schools

Sensing a 'second coming': An overview of new concepts in Sociology, Philosophy, Law and Theology on the re-emerging religious in private and public life

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