„So one way to think about the active principle [of secularism] is to see the state as promoting an abstract notion of ›religion‹, defining the spaces it should inhabit, authorizing the sensibilities proper to it, and then working to discipline actual religious traditions so as to conform to this abstract notion, to fit into those spaces, and to express those sensibilities.“

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
http://www.jstor.org/stable/40864787 [01.03.2024]