Secularism, Sovereignty, Indeterminacy: Is Egypt a Secular or a Religious State?

Beschreibung
„In this essay I offer a thesis about secularism as a modern histori enon, through a consideration of state politics, law, and religion in ary Egypt. Egypt seems hardly a place for theorizing about moder For it is a state where politics and religion seem to constantly blu giving rise to continual conflict, and it thus seems, at best, only secular. These facts, however, go to the heart of my thesis: that itself incessantly blurs together religion and politics, and that its crucially upon the precariousness of the categories it establis religious-political ambiguities, I argue, are expressions of deeper i cies at the very foundation of secular power. In what follows, I el thesis, how it differs from other, similar sounding arguments, an perspective on secularism that it entails. I begin with a famous Egyptian apostasy case.“

Quelle
Agrama, H. A. (2010). Secularism, Sovereignty, Indeterminacy: Is Egypt a Secular or a Religious State? Comparative Studies in Society and History, 52(3), 495–523. Volltext verfügbar unter http://www.jstor.org/stable/40864787 [01.03.2024]