JPR364Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Secularity, Secularism, Immanence
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Jpr364 lecture 2 notes- secularism between the west and the rest. Sept/17/18: these are core concepts, these topics were related but not synonymous, secularism, differentiation, disenchantment, privatization. Modernity: secularism- political identity, secularity (taylor, conditions of possibility (cid:498) immanent frame(cid:499), renewal concept of religion- is it separate from politics it has become must move present. Is it imperially the case that religion declined everything and resurged everywhere (a bizarre case being the usa) not a clear definition of spheres, religion keeps getting drawn in. Instant and substance presence in political life: defining terms, secularization recounting developments, historical trajectory. Descriptive terms that describes socio-developments mental but also a theory about the historical process. As a theory that the two get conflated. Define sovereignty is questioned by the french revolution (based on reason: differentiation religion becomes one sphere of activity- an institution among others, disenchantment max faber-people lived in an enchanted worldview. Causality was explained by supernatural agencies, powers that intervene.
