Jose Casanova
Georgetown University, Sociology, Faculty Member
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Článek se zaměřuje na nové ne-evropské imigranty v USA a zemích EU a zvláště na náboženství (primárně islám), která si s sebou do nových destinací přinášejí. Text srovnává situaci v USA se situací v zemích EU, stejně jako odlišné tradice... more
Článek se zaměřuje na nové ne-evropské imigranty v USA a zemích EU a zvláště na náboženství (primárně islám), která si s sebou do nových destinací přinášejí. Text srovnává situaci v USA se situací v zemích EU, stejně jako odlišné tradice vyrovnávání se s problémem role náboženství ve veřejném životě a přizpůsobování se náboženským "jiným" v západní Evropě a v USA. Zatímco v západní Evropě můžeme být svědky rostoucích obtíží ve vztazích mezi islámem a převažujícím evropským sekulárním diskurzem, je situace v USA mnohem lepší. Tento fakt lze vysvětlit stukturou amerického denominacionalismu, který je lépe připravený na začlenění nových náboženství do amerického občanského náboženství, přestože ani zde není daný proces jednoduchý.
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Based on ethnographic explorations in cities across the globe, Topographies of Faith offers a unique and compelling analysis of religious dynamics in metropolitan centers. It creatively draws on perspectives from urban studies to explore... more
Based on ethnographic explorations in cities across the globe, Topographies of Faith offers a unique and compelling analysis of religious dynamics in metropolitan centers. It creatively draws on perspectives from urban studies to explore the spatiality of religion in modern cities.
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Based on ethnographic explorations in cities across the globe, Topographies of Faith offers a unique and compelling analysis of religious dynamics in metropolitan centers. It creatively draws on perspectives from urban studies to explore... more
Based on ethnographic explorations in cities across the globe, Topographies of Faith offers a unique and compelling analysis of religious dynamics in metropolitan centers. It creatively draws on perspectives from urban studies to explore the spatiality of religion in modern cities.
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El texto compara el encaje de los procesos migratorios y la emergencia del pluralismo religioso en la Union Europea y Estados Unidos. La tesis principal del autor es que los contextos sociales de recepcion de esta nueva inmigracion se... more
El texto compara el encaje de los procesos migratorios y la emergencia del pluralismo religioso en la Union Europea y Estados Unidos. La tesis principal del autor es que los contextos sociales de recepcion de esta nueva inmigracion se encuentran marcados por la manera en que ambas sociedades definen la presencia de lo religioso en su espacio publico. No obstante, el encaje diferenciado de unos colectivos inmigrantes de acuerdo a su adscripcion religiosa, sugiere que unas y otras sociedades reaccionan de manera diferente frente a unos u otros colectivos. Asi, respecto al caso del islam, las sociedades europeas construyen la imagen del �otro religioso� percibiendo su encaje social como problematico. En Estados Unidos, la incorporacion del islam adopta otros parametros a partir del momento en que se reconoce que la adscripcion religiosa es un elemento valido para su encaje social.
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Traducción de: Public Religions in the Modern World Estudio sociológico que analiza el rol de las religiones de raíz cristiana, en especial la católica, en la vida pública de las comunidades en que se circunscriben, donde el punto de... more
Traducción de: Public Religions in the Modern World Estudio sociológico que analiza el rol de las religiones de raíz cristiana, en especial la católica, en la vida pública de las comunidades en que se circunscriben, donde el punto de partida lo constituye el estudio de la secularización de la práctica religiosa. El autor ejemplifica sus análisis con la exposición de cinco casos: el rol social del catolicismo en Brasil, Polonia, España y Estados Unidos, y de este último, la participación del protestantismo.
Page 1. The Spanish State and its Relations with Society by Jos? Casanova The Problem of the Modern* State There has been in recent years a renewed interest among Marx? ists, sociologists and political scientists, in ascertaining or at... more
Page 1. The Spanish State and its Relations with Society by Jos? Casanova The Problem of the Modern* State There has been in recent years a renewed interest among Marx? ists, sociologists and political scientists, in ascertaining or at least ...
THE PAPERS IN THE FIRST FIVE SECTIONS OF THIS ISSUE SET THE stage for this concluding section by addressing the origins of the secu lar and engaging the reader in historical debates. The remarks in this concluding section, drawn from a... more
THE PAPERS IN THE FIRST FIVE SECTIONS OF THIS ISSUE SET THE stage for this concluding section by addressing the origins of the secu lar and engaging the reader in historical debates. The remarks in this concluding section, drawn from a roundtable discussion at the reli gious-secular divide conference, work forward from the foundation established by the preceding papers. These authors speculate on the future of religion and future of secularism. The purpose of organizing this conference was to challenge our categories and to begin to think in new ways. We sought to make ques tions of religion and secularism more complex than they generally are in our public discourse. In this, I think, we have been successful. The papers in this concluding section of the issue represent an attempt at a summary of our debates. The authors were asked at the conference to comment on anything they found interesting, anything they heard in the discussions, or anything that was not said but they felt important to include in the conversation. The brief essays in this section represent the authors’ further development of their remarks at the conference in light of the debates among themselves and the ques tions raised by the audience.
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This volume reframes the debate around Islam and women’s rights within a broader comparative literature. It examines the complex and contingent historical relationships between religion, secularism, democracy, law, and gender equality.... more
This volume reframes the debate around Islam and women’s rights within a broader comparative literature. It examines the complex and contingent historical relationships between religion, secularism, democracy, law, and gender equality. Part I addresses the nexus of religion, law, gender, and democracy through different disciplinary perspectives (sociology, anthropology, political science, law). Part II localizes the implementation of this nexus between law, gender, and democracy, and provides contextualized responses to questions raised in Part I. The contributors explore the situation of Muslim women’s rights vis-à-vis human rights to shed light on gender politics in the modernization of the nation and to ponder over the role of Islam in gender inequality across different Muslim countries.
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... They might just possibly include, for example, Jimmy Carter, another American president who was of the same general ... Muhammad Iqbal, respectively instrumental in the political foundation of independent India and Pakistan back in... more
... They might just possibly include, for example, Jimmy Carter, another American president who was of the same general ... Muhammad Iqbal, respectively instrumental in the political foundation of independent India and Pakistan back in 1947. ...
... If the study is able to show that public religions exist or have reemerged recently in all worlds of development, it will serve to support the assertion that the deprivatization of religion is indeed a global phe-nomenon.8 The final... more
... If the study is able to show that public religions exist or have reemerged recently in all worlds of development, it will serve to support the assertion that the deprivatization of religion is indeed a global phe-nomenon.8 The final chapter, "The Deprivatization of Modern Religion ...
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The central premise of this paper is that in order to understand the social construction of religion and secularity in East Asia today we need to take a long durée historical approach, which takes into account the colonial encounters... more
The central premise of this paper is that in order to understand the social construction of religion and secularity in East Asia today we need to take a long durée historical approach, which takes into account the colonial encounters between the Christian West and East Asia during three different and distinct phases of globalization. While most of the recent scholarly work on the globalization of the categories of religion and secularity focuses on the second Western hegemonic phase of globalization, this essay focuses on the early modern phase of globalization before Western hegemony.
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Focuses on women, religion, secularism, and democracy, across different religious traditions and national contexts Examines comparatively the situation of emergent Muslim democracies (Turkey, Tunisia, Senegal, Indonesia, and Malaysia) as... more
Focuses on women, religion, secularism, and democracy, across different religious traditions and national contexts Examines comparatively the situation of emergent Muslim democracies (Turkey, Tunisia, Senegal, Indonesia, and Malaysia) as well as non-democratic cases (Iran or Morocco) Considers state policies vis-a-vis women and draw comparisons with the situation of women's rights in some Western (Catholic countries) and non-western democracies (India) Highlights the influence of transnational movements and feminist discourses, both Islamic and secular, on women's rights debates and policies in different national contexts Provides an analytical framework for future research
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Sekülerleşme mitine hala inanan var mı? Son dönem din sosyolojisi alanındaki tartışmalar, bu sorunun bugün sekülerleşme kuramını ele alacak herhangi bir müzakere için uygun bir soru olduğunu gösterebilir. Bryan Wilson ya da Karel... more
Sekülerleşme mitine hala inanan var mı? Son dönem din sosyolojisi alanındaki tartışmalar, bu sorunun bugün sekülerleşme kuramını ele alacak herhangi bir müzakere için uygun bir soru olduğunu gösterebilir. Bryan Wilson ya da Karel Dobbelaere gibi modern tarihsel süreçleri açıklama çabamızda sekülerleşme kuramının hala pek çok açıklayıcı değere sahip olduğunda ısrar eden birkaç “eski mümin” kalmıştır . Ancak din sosyologlarının çoğunluğu buna kulak asmayacaktır; zira nasıl zamanında bu paradigmayı eleştiri süzgecinden geçirmeden büyük hızla kucaklamışlarsa aynı hızla da terk etmişlerdir. Hatta bazıları zamanında (Aydınlanma) filozofların(ın) dindar hayalperestler ve hilekar rahiplerle dalga geçtiği gibi, dinin geleceği hakkında pek çok yanlış kehanette bulunmuş olan rasyonalistleri alay konusu haline getiriyorlar. “Bilimsel” kanıtlarla kuşanmış din sosyologları şimdi dinin parlak geleceği hakkında tahminlerde bulunmakta kendilerini rahat hissetmektedir. Durumun bu şekilde tersine dönmesi son derece şaşırtıcıdır; zira ilk “sekülerleşme tartışması” sırasında kavramı ve sekülerleşme kuramının ampirik kanıtlarını sorgulayan ilk sesleri, David Martin ve Andrew Greeley’yi dinlemek konusunda neredeyse kimse istekli değildi. Ancak teologların bile Tanrı’nın ölümünü ilan ettikleri ve seküler şehrin gelişini kutladıkları bir zamanda onları kim dikkatle dinleyebilirdi ki?
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Bütün toplumsal fenomenler içinde, din kadar değişken ve dolayısıyla ikili karşıtlıklara dayalı sınıflandırmaya müsait olmayan belki başka bir fenomen yoktur. Bu ikili karşıtlıklardan çok azı, kamusal/özel ayrımı kadar muğlâk, çoksesli ve... more
Bütün toplumsal fenomenler içinde, din kadar değişken ve dolayısıyla ikili karşıtlıklara dayalı sınıflandırmaya müsait olmayan belki başka bir fenomen yoktur. Bu ikili karşıtlıklardan çok azı, kamusal/özel ayrımı kadar muğlâk, çoksesli ve söylemsel tartışmaya açıktır. Oysa kamusal/özel ayrımı, modern toplumsal düzenin kavramsallaştırmalarının tümünde can alıcı önemdedir ve [bildiğimiz anlamıyla] dinin kendisi aslında kamusal ve özel alanların modern tarihsel farklılaşmasıyla doğrudan bağlantılıdır. Bir ampirik ifade olarak her ne kadar yanlış olsa da, “dinin özel bir mesele olduğunu” söylemek iki anlamda Batılı modernliği oluşturucu bir ifadedir . İlk olarak, din özgürlüğü, vicdan özgürlüğü anlamında kronolojik olarak “ilk özgürlük” olduğu kadar bütün modern özgürlüklerin ön koşuludur. Vicdan özgürlüğünün “özel hayat-mahremiyet hakkı”yla –özel alanın devlet müdahalesinden olduğu kadar kilise denetiminden bağımsız olarak kurumsallaşmasıyla- içsel olarak ilişkili olduğu ve “özel hayat hakkı”nın modern liberalizmin ve modern bireyciliğin tam da temeli olarak işlev gördüğü düşünülürse, dinin hususileşmesinin modernliğe esas teşkil ettiği rahatlıkla söylenebilir .
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Книжка «Нариси новітньої історії України» — це спроба міжнародної групи на- уковців, зібраних Інститутом Кеннана при Міжнародну науковому центрі імені Вудро Вільсона (Вашингтон, США), описати та проаналізувати колективний до- свід... more
Книжка «Нариси новітньої історії України» — це спроба міжнародної групи на- уковців, зібраних Інститутом Кеннана при Міжнародну науковому центрі імені Вудро Вільсона (Вашингтон, США), описати та проаналізувати колективний до- свід сучасних українців, якого вони набули за останні тридцять років. У дев’яти розділах книги автори — вчені з українських, американських, британських, єв- ропейських і канадських університетів досліджують, як поставала незалежна дер- жава, виникали й розв’язувалися політичні кризи, формувався приватний сектор та енергетика, перевинаходилися багатство й бідність, розвивалися вільні ЗМІ та сучасне мистецтво, виникав новий релігійний досвід, а також еволюціонували на- ціональна ідентичність і демократичний лад в Україні. Написана з різних дослід- ницьких та ідеологічних позицій, ця історія дозволяє побачити багатство й трагіч- ність розмаїтого досвіду сучасної України.
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Lo que más llama la atención de este artículo es su capacidad para entrelazar la historia de las religiones mundiales con procesos de secularización y colonización y así darle un nuevo perfil a la subdisciplina para cualificarla... more
Lo que más llama la atención de este artículo es su capacidad para entrelazar la historia de las religiones mundiales con procesos de secularización y colonización y así darle un nuevo perfil a la subdisciplina para cualificarla propiamente como "sociología histórica comparada de las religiones". He incorporado notas a pie de página con la finalidad de hacer comentarios y ofrecer bibliografía complementaria que apunta hacia un rumbo poco frecuentado en la investigación en sociología religiosa.
What is most striking about this article is its ability to intertwine the history of world religions with processes of secularization and colonization and thus give a new profile to the subdiscipline to properly qualify it as “comparative historical sociology of religions”. I have incorporated editor’s footnotes to comment and offer supplementary bibliography that points to a path rarely traversed in religious sociology research.
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.15409.92006/1
What is most striking about this article is its ability to intertwine the history of world religions with processes of secularization and colonization and thus give a new profile to the subdiscipline to properly qualify it as “comparative historical sociology of religions”. I have incorporated editor’s footnotes to comment and offer supplementary bibliography that points to a path rarely traversed in religious sociology research.
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.15409.92006/1