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Dissonant Notes on the Post‐Secular: Unthinking Secularization in Global Historical Sociology
Author(s) -
Ascione Gennaro
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of historical sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.186
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-6443
pISSN - 0952-1909
DOI - 10.1111/johs.12116
Subject(s) - secularization , modernity , disenchantment , postmodernism , ideology , secular state , sociology , modernization theory , secular education , secularity , sociology of religion , narrative , secularism , epistemology , relation (database) , religious studies , social science , philosophy , political science , theology , law , politics , islam , linguistics , database , computer science
The article criticizes the assumption that modernity is a rupture in time and space conceivable in terms of the coming of a secular age. It tackles Habermas concept of ‘post‐secular’ and denotes it as an attempt to provide new foundations to modernization narratives, in postmodern terms; it discusses Blumenberg's idea of secularization and questions the historical ontogenesis of what Blumenberg thinks of in terms of the transition to the modern age; it further elaborates on Wang Hui analysis of the relation between Western science and the role of China in global modernity. Secularization and the post‐secular, it is argued, re‐frame narratives of the disenchantment within a western geocultural ideology of western superiority.