Conflictive Secularization: on Sociology, Religion and History
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Abstract
For the last thirty years the suitability of the secularization paradigm as an explanatory model of religious change in modernity has been the object of intense debate. Whereas many sociologists still defend its validity, many more criticize its adequacy and propose alternative models in order to account for the sustained presence of religion in modern societies. This paper aims at revising the current state of this debate, which takes place mostly in the field of sociology, and at contributing to its knowledge among historians. Furthermore, it proposes to highlight that some of these controversies have an interest in order to expand our instruments for interpretation of religious history and general history. Last, the article advocates the usefulness of the concept «secularization» within the Spanish context, secularization understood as «conflictive secularization», secularization problematized in its definition an its historiographical developments.
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secularization, laicization, modernity, religious history, conflictive
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