Secularization, Desecularization, and Toleration

Cross-Disciplinary Challenges to a Modern Myth

By: Vyacheslav Karpov (Editor), Manfred Svensson (Editor)

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Hardcover | 23 October 2020

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This book challenges the modern myth that tolerance grows as societies become less religious. The myth inseparably links the progress of toleration to the secularization of modern society. This volume scrutinizes this grand narrative theoretically and empirically, and proposes alternative accounts of the varied relationships between diverse interpretations of religion and secularity and multiple secularizations, desecularizations, and forms of toleration. The authors show how both secular and religious orthodoxies inform toleration and persecution, and how secularizations and desecularizations engender repressive or pluralistic regimes. Ultimately, the book offers an agency-focused perspective which links the variation in toleration and persecution to the actors of secularization and desecularization and their cultural programs.

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"The cast of authors gathered in this book is extremely impressive, and the quality of nearly every chapter is outstanding. ... the wide variation in topics also makes it such a rich, comparative read. ... This book proves that we deeply need such juxtapositions. It succeeds, in a way, not only with its title, but also with its subtitle, which makes the point that cross-disciplinary approaches to myth busting are not just serious but essential." (Robert J. Joustra, IJRF, International Journal for Religious Freedom, Vol. 15 (1-2), 2022)

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