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Political Theology and the Dialectics of (Counter)Secularization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2013

Renaud Fabbri
Renaud Fabbri*
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VIP Research Center, University of Versailles
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Abstract

This article builds on Habermas's hypothesis of a post-secular world society and on Voegelin's philosophy of consciousness. It first analyzes the genesis of the post-secular hypothesis in the work of Habermas. It then looks at the historical roots of the post-secular world society since the Axial Age. Finally, it delineates the evolution of religious actors in modern societies, at the political and cognitive levels, focusing on the European Counter-revolutionaries, the Islamist and post-Islamist movements of the Middle East, and the Hindu Nationalists. The article concludes that Habermas's hypothesis provides a plausible alternative to neo-Schmittian theory of the Clash of Civilizations proposed by Huntington.

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Politics and Religion , Volume 6 , Issue 4 , December 2013 , pp. 730 - 752
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Copyright © Religion and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association 2013 

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