The Problem of Secularism and Religious Regulation: Anthropological Perspectives

Giumbelli, Emerson

doi:10.3167/arrs.2013.040106

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“…Consequently, Engelke's conclusions implicitly echo previous arguments: for Engelke, too, religious publicity is a by-product of, a resistance to, the state privatization of religion under secularism. This tendency is also visible in Brazilianist studies of the public sphere, where secularization has been sidelined even as 'secularism' is overtly embraced (Giumbelli 2013; see especially Oosterbaan 2017).…”

Section: Publicity Anthropology and The Elision Of Secularizationmentioning

confidence: 97%

On secularity: Marxism, reality, and the Messiah in Brazil

Lebner

2018

Royal Anthropological Inst

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On 17 April 1996, police opened fire on more than 1,500 unarmed protesters of the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) in Southeast Pará, Brazil, killing nineteen and wounding seventy‐nine. Two years later, Osias, one of the wounded survivors, awoke to find that he had written a messianic prophecy, which he decided to share because it contained ‘a lot of reality’. This article explores what conditioned Osias's expectation that his text could provoke public reflections on reality. As such, it engages with a question unexplored by current scholarship: why the will to publicity might be inextricable from secularity, which I define as the condition of living with secularization, understood in turn not as the rise of unbelief, but as the expansion of a domain of thought and practice distinguished from religion. The ethnography ultimately inspires a rereading of Asad's Formations of the secular, interrogates assumptions about the determining reality of ‘secularism’ and ‘politics’, and makes more visible how anthropological writing is shaped by secularity. With a postscript on the October 2018 presidential elections.

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Section: Publicity Anthropology and The Elision Of Secularizationmentioning

confidence: 97%

On secularity: Marxism, reality, and the Messiah in Brazil

Lebner

2018

Royal Anthropological Inst

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“…O secularismo, por sua vez, pode ser medido pela dimensão dos seus efeitos e isso não necessariamente relega a religião ao privado. A noção do secular, aqui, incorpora a noção da religião e é complexa o suficiente para que não possa ser vista como uma oposição ao religioso (Giumbelli 2013b). Ou seja, vai além da forma dos agentes de Estado e suas regras, depende das relações entres atores sociais de vários tipos (Giumbelli 2013b:98).…”

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“…Assim, ao trazer a América Latina e o Brasil como estudo de caso, nos colocamos em um lugar teórico no debate sobre secularização que antes era muito privilegiado em países de população muçulmana considerável, tais como Turquia e França (Giumbelli 2013b). É necessário ir além, nossa contribuição é exploratória, mas mostra um caminho interessante de desenvolvimento futuro, qual seja: interpelar os atores que povoam o Estado brasileiro e compreender como utilizam noções tão importantes e, por isso, tão caras ao funcionamento democrático.…”

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Secularização, laicidade e espaço público: como pensar a política contemporânea brasileira à luz da religião?

Tanaka

2020

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Resumo: Este artigo discute os limites e usos dos conceitos de secularização, laicidade e espaço público aplicados à política contemporânea brasileira. Analisamos discursos, qualitativamente, feitos por atores políticos durante debates televisivos, posicionamentos públicos e publicações em redes sociais. Descobrimos que figuras públicas conservadoras tendem a mobilizar e interpretar a laicidade com base no argumento de representação de interesses na legitimação da presença religiosa no Estado. Por outro lado, os atores progressistas defendem a separação entre Estado e religião, conferindo uma competência privada à fé. Por fim, atentamos para o fato de que o debate sobre essas noções precisa considerar a forma como os atores as mobilizam, dado que a definição destes termos varia conforme seus interesses e projetos.

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“…The modes in which states define, relate to, and regulate the manifestation of religion differ (see also Giumbelli 2013), depending on historically situated ways of accommodating religion and on specific majority-minority relations between different religious groups. Beekers as well as Omar Kasmani and Dominik Mattes work in Northern European societies that undergo marked processes of de-churching and the decline of mainstream Christianity.…”

Section: Comparison In Secular Configurationsmentioning

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Meyer¹

2020

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Highlighting common threads in the pieces by Beekers, Kasmani and Mattes, and Dilger, this concluding essay reflects on the potential of comparison as conceptual innovation in the anthropological study of religious plurality. Asking how to develop innovative practices of comparison for the sake of grasping the dynamics of plural societies in the light of the articles in this collection, I argue that it is necessary to transcend the bifurcation of the study of religions, which was accentuated with the rise of the anthropologies of Islam and Christianity, in favor of a focus on the secular configuration as a whole, paying attention to power dynamics that assign different spaces for action to different religions (notwithstanding their equality in legal terms). The point of comparison, understood as a critical project geared toward conceptual innovation, is not only to discern so far overlooked, unexpected differences and similarities, but also to understand how these differences and similarities, as well as the possibility to compare as such, are outcomes of long-standing entanglements.

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The Problem of Secularism and Religious Regulation: Anthropological Perspectives

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