Journal of Economy Culture and Society

SUBMITINFORMATION
EnglishTürkçe

Theoretical Article


DOI :10.26650/JECS2020-0008   IUP :10.26650/JECS2020-0008    Full Text (PDF)

The Postsecular and Rethinking the Political

Muhammed Ali Ağcan

The notion of postsecularity has come to the fore in recognizing the neglected significance of religion and belief in terms of their normative, social and political contributions to the individual and collective lives of contemporary times. The literature of postsecularism, essentially, takes issue with the normative-political problematique of coexistence of diverse beliefs in the political community. In this respect, Jürgen Habermas joins the term of postsecular consciousness to be able to deal with the persistence of religiousity and faith in modernized societies and seeks ways to include religious reasoning and moral intuitions into the public sphere and will-formation of the political community. However, he ends up restricting religious moral and political contribution strictly to the general public sphere and ultimately civil society. This article argues that the inadequacy of his postsecular orientation has to do with his idea of the political, which ignores contestation and pluralization in relation to the very foundations of the political. The article also claims that the postsecular turn in political theory fulfills its promises, if it opens the relationship between the secular/immanence and the religious/ transcendence to diverse/plural interpretations, and simultaneously contest the political as ontology among subjects of diverse beliefs in the political community.

Keywords: The postsecular, habermas, public sphere, religion, ontology, the political
DOI :10.26650/JECS2020-0008   IUP :10.26650/JECS2020-0008    Full Text (PDF)

Postseküler ve Siyasalı Yeniden Düşünmek

Muhammed Ali Ağcan

.


PDF View

References

  • Asad, T. (2003). Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity. Stanford, USA: Stanford University Press.Bruce, S. (2002), God is Dead: Secularization in the West. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing. google scholar
  • Bruce, S. (2008). Secularisation and Politics. In Jeffrey Haynes (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Religion and Politics(pp.145 –158). London, UK: Routledge. google scholar
  • Calhoun, C., Juergensmeyer, M., & VanAntwerpen, J. (Eds.) (2011). Rethinking Secularism. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.Casanova, Jose (1994). Public Religions in the Modern World. Chicago, USA: Chicago University Press. google scholar
  • Casanova, J. (2007). Rethinking Secularization: A Global Comparative Perspective. In Peter Beyer&Lori Beaman (Eds.), Religion, Globalization and Culture (pp.7—22). Leiden, Holland: Brill. google scholar
  • Casanova, J. (2008). Public Religions Revisited. In Hent de Vries (Ed.), Religion: Beyond the Concept (pp. 101-120). New York, USA: Fordham U.P google scholar
  • Casanova, J. (2011).The Secular, Secularizations and Secularisms. In Craigh Calhoun, Mark Juergensmeyer&Jonathan VanAntwerpen (Eds.), Rethinking Secularism (pp. 54 –74). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press,. google scholar
  • Connolly, W. E. (1995). The Ethos of Pluralization. Minneapolis, USA: University of Minnesota Press. google scholar
  • Dallmayr, F. (2012). Post-secularity and (global) Politics: a Need for Radical Redefinition. Review of International Studies, 38 (5), 963 –973. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210512000423 google scholar
  • De Vries, H., & Lawrence F. S. (Eds.) (2006). Political Theologies: Public Religions in the Post-Secular World. New York, USA: Fordham University Press.Habermas, Jürgen (1992). Postmetaphysical Thinking: Philolophical Essays. Massachusetts, USA: The MIT Press. google scholar
  • Habermas, Jürgen (2002). Religion and Rationality: Essays on God, Reason and Modernity. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. google scholar
  • Habermas, J. (2006a). On the Relations between the Secular Liberal State and Religion. In Hent De Vries & Lawrence F. Sullivan (Eds.), Political Theologies: Public Religions in the Post-Secular World (pp.251-261). New York, USA: Fordham University Press, google scholar
  • Habermas, J. (2006b). Religion in the Public Sphere. European Journal of Philosophy, 14 (1), 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0378.2006.00241.x google scholar
  • Habermas, Jürgen (2008a). Notes on Post-Secular Society. NPQ, Fall, 17–29. google scholar
  • Habermas, Jürgen (2008b). Between Naturalism and Religion (Ciaran Cronin, Trans.). Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. google scholar
  • Habermas, Jürgen (2010). A Postsecular World Society: On the Philosophical Significance of Postsecular Consciousness and the Multicultural World Society. 1–13. Retrieved from https://tif.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/A-Postsecular-World-Society-TIF.pdf (access date: 20.08.2017). google scholar
  • Habermas, Jürgen (2011). The Political: The Rational Meaning of a Questionable Inheritance of Political Theology. In Mendiate, Eduardo & Jonathan VanAntwerpen, The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere (pp. 15–34). New York, USA: Columbia University Press, google scholar
  • Honneth, A. (2014). The Fredom’s Right: The Social Foundations of Democratic Life ( Joseph Ganahl, Trans.). Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. google scholar
  • Hurd, Elizabeth (2008). The Politics of Secularism in International Relations. Princeton, USA: Princeton University Press. google scholar
  • Marchart, Oliver (2007). Post-Foundational Political Thought: Political Difference in Nancy, Lefort, Badiou and Laclau. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press. google scholar
  • Mendiate, E., & Jonathan VanAntwerpen (Eds.) (2011). The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere. New York, USA: Columbia University Press. google scholar
  • Mouffe, Chantal (2006). Religion, Liberal Democracy and Citizenship”, In Hent De Vries& Lawrence F. Sullivan (Eds.), Political Theologies: Public Religions in the Post-Secular World (pp. 318–326). New York: Fordham University Press. google scholar
  • Rawls, John (2005). Political Liberalism. New York, USA: Columbia University Press. Taylor, Charles (2004). Modern Social Imaginaries. North Caroline, USA: Duke University Press. google scholar
  • Taylor, C. (2007). A Secular Age. Cambridge, USA: Harvard University Press. google scholar
  • Taylor, C. (2011). Why We Need a Radical Redefinition of Secularism. In Eduardo Mendiate &Jonathan VanAntwerpen(Eds.), The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere (pp.34–59). New York: Columbia University Press. google scholar
  • White, Stephen K. (2009). Violence, Weak Ontology and Late-Modernity. Political Theory, 36 (7), 808–816. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0090591709345464. google scholar

Citations

Copy and paste a formatted citation or use one of the options to export in your chosen format


EXPORT



APA

Ağcan, M.A. (2020). The Postsecular and Rethinking the Political. Journal of Economy Culture and Society, 0(62), 381-395. https://doi.org/10.26650/JECS2020-0008


AMA

Ağcan M A. The Postsecular and Rethinking the Political. Journal of Economy Culture and Society. 2020;0(62):381-395. https://doi.org/10.26650/JECS2020-0008


ABNT

Ağcan, M.A. The Postsecular and Rethinking the Political. Journal of Economy Culture and Society, [Publisher Location], v. 0, n. 62, p. 381-395, 2020.


Chicago: Author-Date Style

Ağcan, Muhammed Ali,. 2020. “The Postsecular and Rethinking the Political.” Journal of Economy Culture and Society 0, no. 62: 381-395. https://doi.org/10.26650/JECS2020-0008


Chicago: Humanities Style

Ağcan, Muhammed Ali,. “The Postsecular and Rethinking the Political.” Journal of Economy Culture and Society 0, no. 62 (May. 2024): 381-395. https://doi.org/10.26650/JECS2020-0008


Harvard: Australian Style

Ağcan, MA 2020, 'The Postsecular and Rethinking the Political', Journal of Economy Culture and Society, vol. 0, no. 62, pp. 381-395, viewed 17 May. 2024, https://doi.org/10.26650/JECS2020-0008


Harvard: Author-Date Style

Ağcan, M.A. (2020) ‘The Postsecular and Rethinking the Political’, Journal of Economy Culture and Society, 0(62), pp. 381-395. https://doi.org/10.26650/JECS2020-0008 (17 May. 2024).


MLA

Ağcan, Muhammed Ali,. “The Postsecular and Rethinking the Political.” Journal of Economy Culture and Society, vol. 0, no. 62, 2020, pp. 381-395. [Database Container], https://doi.org/10.26650/JECS2020-0008


Vancouver

Ağcan MA. The Postsecular and Rethinking the Political. Journal of Economy Culture and Society [Internet]. 17 May. 2024 [cited 17 May. 2024];0(62):381-395. Available from: https://doi.org/10.26650/JECS2020-0008 doi: 10.26650/JECS2020-0008


ISNAD

Ağcan, MuhammedAli. “The Postsecular and Rethinking the Political”. Journal of Economy Culture and Society 0/62 (May. 2024): 381-395. https://doi.org/10.26650/JECS2020-0008



TIMELINE


Submitted06.02.2020
Accepted29.07.2020
Published Online17.11.2020

LICENCE


Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC)

This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.


SHARE




Istanbul University Press aims to contribute to the dissemination of ever growing scientific knowledge through publication of high quality scientific journals and books in accordance with the international publishing standards and ethics. Istanbul University Press follows an open access, non-commercial, scholarly publishing.