Multiple secularities : toward a cultural sociology of secular modernities
Multiple secularities : toward a cultural sociology of secular modernities
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多重世俗性：走向世俗现代性的文化社会学
DOI：
10.1163/15691330-12341249
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发表时间：
2012
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0.6
通讯作者：
M. Burchardt
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作者：
M. Wohlrab;M. Burchardt
摘要二十多年来，关于宗教和世俗化的社会学辩论的特点是世俗化理论的批评者(通常是美国人)和捍卫者(主要是欧洲人)之间的对抗。与此同时，关于世俗主义在政治制度以及国家和文明框架中的作用的公开辩论显著增加。在此背景下，本文提出了“多元世俗性”的概念框架，以期重新聚焦于宗教和世俗性的社会学研究。我们将证明，它可以激发在各种现代环境中对宗教和世俗的关系进行理论化的新方法。我们主张在文化社会学的框架内重新表述这种关系，并根据宗教和非宗教领域之间的区别所蕴含的文化意义来概念化“世俗性”。在马克斯·韦伯的基础上，我们区分了四种基本的世俗性理想类型，它们与特定的参考问题有关，并与特定的指导思想相关联。最后，我们以选定的案例研究为例说明这一概念的使用。
AbstractFor more than two decades sociological debates over religion and secularization have been characterized by a confrontation between (often American) critics and (mostly European) defenders of secularization theories. At the same time, there was a remarkable rise in public debates about the role of secularism in political regimes and in national as well as civilizational frameworks. Against this backdrop this paper presents the conceptual framework of “multiple secularities” with a view to refocusing sociological research on religion and secularity. We will demonstrate that it can stimulate new ways of theorizing the relationship of religion and secularity in a variety of modern environments. Arguing for a reformulation of this relationship within the framework of cultural sociology, we conceptualize “secularity” in terms of the cultural meanings underlying the differentiation between religion and non-religious spheres. Building on Max Weber we distinguish four basic ideal-types of secularity that are related to specific reference problems and associated with specific guiding ideas. Finally, we illustrate the use of the concept with regard to selected case-studies.