{"product_id":"religion-in-a-secular-age-the-case-of-tunisia-von-amany-abdelrazik","title":"Religion in a Secular Age. The Case of Tunisia","description":"\u003cp\u003eMaster's Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject Cultural Studies - North African Studies, grade: 1,7, University of Potsdam (Institute for Amerkanstik und Anglistik), course: Anglophne Modernities  in Literature  and  Culture, language: English, abstract: The debates over the relationship between a Western secular modernity associated with specific historical practices and secular modernity as a universal category have never lost their momentum as a controversial topic in the discourse of modernization and the nature of both the modern society and individual. While according to the prevailing discourse in the West a universal secularism is based on a universal reason valid to all cultures, other Western as well as non-Western thinkers and sociologists, in particular postcolonial scholars, refute the possibility of a singular secular paradigm valid for all times. They argue that such a universal paradigm with its Western ideals negates non-Western histories and philosophies and thus is a hegemonic model of modernity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis paper is a critique of the unveiled secular modern \/ veiled religious traditional divide in the modernist discourse in light of current debates of both postmodernists and neo-secularists. Following the secularization process in postcolonial Tunisia as part of the state¿s modernization movement, this paper sheds light on the suppression of the non-Western religious actor under the narrative of a universal rational modernity in the modern age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783668285989\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783668285989","offer_id":39430382616669,"sku":"9783668285989","price":47.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/414ef886-71b5-4d0f-a68b-f0217ae304fa.jpg?v=1778301305","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/religion-in-a-secular-age-the-case-of-tunisia-von-amany-abdelrazik","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}