Laïcité : le débat bat son plein

Ferriere, Alexis Marie Artaud De La

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“…We argue that public space in contemporary societies is often a trans-liminal space: it can and does contain multiple and potentially conflicting ascriptions of meaning, without being exclusively grounded in either the secular or the sacred (comp. Wydra 2015;de La Ferrière 2020). This does not preclude a particular public space from being widely understood as predominantly secular (or sacred), but it does problematise the imagination of public space as teleologically secular.…”

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Secularisation as the fragmentation of the sacred and of sacred space

Tol

Gorski

2022

Religion, State and Society

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Contemporary conflicts about secularity in 'the West' tend to focus on public space. Although collective Christian heritage means that public space is rarely exclusively neutral, conflicts continue to arise over the relationship between secularity and religious symbolism, and especially over those symbols which derive from religious minorities. This contribution critically considers the designation of space as either sacred or secular in political imaginaries, approaching processes of secularisation as part of a fragmentation of the sacred and of sacred space. We introduce the concept of transliminal space: spaces which can contain multiple and potentially conflicting ascriptions of meaning. Conceptualising public space as trans-liminal allows for contemporaneous and competing ascriptions of the secular, the sacred, the secular-sacred, the sacredsecular, without being exclusively grounded in either. Transliminality does not preclude public space to be predominantly secular, but it does problematise the phenomenon of normative exclusions of religious symbols from public spaces.

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Secularisation as the fragmentation of the sacred and of sacred space

Tol

Gorski

2022

Religion, State and Society

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Ethnic identity as a challenge to antidiscrimination law: protection, positionality and liminality

van der Tol

2024

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Secularisation as the Fragmentation of the Sacred and of Sacred Space

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Gorski

2024

Theol. Reflect.

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Contemporary conflicts about secularity in ‘the West’ tend to focus on public space. Although collective Christian heritage means that public space is rarely exclusively neutral, conflicts continue to arise over the relationship between secularity and religious symbolism, and especially over those symbols which derive from religious minorities. This contribution critically considers the designation of space as either sacred or secular in political imaginaries, approaching processes of secularisation as part of a fragmentation of the sacred and of sacred space. We introduce the concept of trans-liminal space: spaces which can contain multiple and potentially conflicting ascriptions of meaning. Conceptualizing public space as trans-liminal allows for contemporaneous and competing ascriptions of the secular, the sacred, the secular-sacred, and the sacred-secular, without being exclusively grounded in either. Trans-liminality does not preclude public space to be predominantly secular, but it does problematise the phenomenon of normative exclusions of religious symbols from public spaces.

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Laïcité : le débat bat son plein

Cited by 3 publications

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Secularisation as the fragmentation of the sacred and of sacred space

Secularisation as the fragmentation of the sacred and of sacred space

Ethnic identity as a challenge to antidiscrimination law: protection, positionality and liminality

Secularisation as the Fragmentation of the Sacred and of Sacred Space

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