Retheorizing the Postsecular Present: Embodiment, Spatial Transcendence, and Challenges to Authenticity Among Young Christians in Glasgow, Scotland

Olson, Elizabeth A.; Hopkins, Peter; Pain, Rachel; Vincett, Giselle

doi:10.1080/00045608.2012.702516

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“…This has been fostered by contributions on "the post-secular" that rely on decontextualizing narratives (see, e.g., Eder, 2002). There are, however, a number of studies that address post-secularity as an empirical phenomenon related to changing relations of religion within a secular society (e.g., Olson et al, 2013Olson et al, :1424. Lancione (2014:3063) identifies different strands of research in geography, highlighting that one of them -in line with a statement by Olson et al (2013Olson et al ( :1424 about it being the key focus for geographers -is concerned with incidents of crossing the boundaries between secular and religious orientation in the public arena.…”

Section: Geographic Perspectives On Post-secular Rapprochementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Despite these efforts, some scholars note that assumptions about religion coming back from an alleged former public marginality may have been rather misleading (e.g., Olson et al, 2013Olson et al, :1422. Others are opposed to the notion that something "new" emerges and stress that "while much of the earlier geographical research on religion (.…”

Section: Geographic Perspectives On Post-secular Rapprochementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There are, however, a number of studies that address post-secularity as an empirical phenomenon related to changing relations of religion within a secular society (e.g., Olson et al, 2013Olson et al, :1424. Lancione (2014:3063) identifies different strands of research in geography, highlighting that one of them -in line with a statement by Olson et al (2013Olson et al ( :1424 about it being the key focus for geographers -is concerned with incidents of crossing the boundaries between secular and religious orientation in the public arena. Often based on examples from the UK and USA (but also in Turkey; see Gökariksel and Secor, 2015), such "new forms of partnership between the religious and the secular" (Cloke et al, 2016:498) have been termed post-secular rapprochement (see .…”

Section: Geographic Perspectives On Post-secular Rapprochementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, a variety of understandings of post-secular, post-secularity, post-secularism has surfaced, resulting in a multifaceted and shifting meaning of the terms. Olson et al (2013Olson et al ( :1422 claim that "postsecularization refers to the reemergence of religion in the public sphere, whereas postsecularism is associated with a normative position regarding the involvement of religious people, organizations, and ethics in public life." Consequently, Olson et al devote themselves to postsecular theory as "a set of diverse scholarship that shares an interest in the development of a rigorous critique of theories of secularization" (Olson et al, 2013(Olson et al, :1422.…”

Section: Geographic Perspectives On Post-secular Rapprochementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Less a homogeneous phenomenon, theses spaces are understood as specific, heterogeneous incidents of cooperation. Consequently, conceptualizations set off inductively from empirical observations: forms of rapprochement emerge from collaboration between social groups with different religious and secular orientation (see Olson et al, 2013Olson et al, :1424. However, this is not to plea for empirical eclecticism but to develop "a more wholesale reorientation of the sacred and secular in the public sphere" (Cloke, 2011:486).…”

Section: Geographic Perspectives On Post-secular Rapprochementmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Post-secular rapprochement in peripheralized regions – politics of withdrawal and parish community responses

Meyer

Miggelbrink

2017

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Abstract. In many parts of Germany, processes of secularization overlap with ongoing sociodemographic changes such as outmigration and population decline. As a result, Christian churches face significant financial pressure due to plummeting numbers of parish members. In East Germany, these circumstances are aggravated by policies of de-Christianization during the socialist past. Using a case study in the Evangelical Church in Central Germany and its church district Altenburger Land, we argue that forms of post-secular rapprochement -transgression of boundaries of belief -develop following severe budget cuts and the withdrawal of pastoral positions. Contemporary literature on post-secular rapprochement specifically illuminates social issues emerging in urban landscapes due to neoliberal policies. In contrast, we highlight corresponding incidents of cooperation in peripheralized regions. On the one hand, parish members in our case study region aim to cooperate with local clubs to organize common festivities and increase their visibility. On the other hand, they attempt to get in touch with other Christian groups in a more subtle way. Hereby, we illuminate the everyday work of post-secular rapprochement in peripheralized regions using an empirically driven and practice-theory-based approach.

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Section: Geographic Perspectives On Post-secular Rapprochementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Geographic Perspectives On Post-secular Rapprochementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Geographic Perspectives On Post-secular Rapprochementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Geographic Perspectives On Post-secular Rapprochementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Geographic Perspectives On Post-secular Rapprochementmentioning

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Post-secular rapprochement in peripheralized regions – politics of withdrawal and parish community responses

Meyer

Miggelbrink

2017

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Hopkins

2017

International Encyclopedia of Geography

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The study of religion in geography focuses on the ways in which matters of faith, belief, and spirituality interconnect with, and shape, everyday landscapes, identities, practices, and spaces. Labeled as depleted and marginalized in the early 1990s, the field has now developed considerably, particularly as a result of the cultural turn and the ongoing development of social and cultural geography as a significant subfield of the discipline. Building on early work about patterns of religious affiliation and segregation, coupled with contestations over the location of places of worship, research has diversified to include debates about gender relations, children's geographies, and political geographies and geopolitics. The most recent debates to find their way into geographies of religion focus on the place of emotions and the currency of discussions about postsecularism for understanding contemporary engagements with matters of faith.

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Postdevelopment and Nonsecularism in an Officially Secular State: Faith-Based Social Action in the Philippines

Moxham

2014

J. Int. Dev.

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A growing body of literature on the Global South takes postdevelopment as a conceptual starting point, exploring the diversity of new forms of economy and empowerment produced locally through interactions with national and global forces. Studies of postsecularism and nonsecularism in the Global North demonstrate many affinities with postdevelopment. In the Philippines, small Christian communities and entire dioceses are tackling community livelihood and well-being. The Diocese of San Carlos is committed to the goal of 'total human development', a concept of cultural, economic and political empowerment among communities within its borders, shedding light on debates about development and faith-based organisation.

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Retheorizing the Postsecular Present: Embodiment, Spatial Transcendence, and Challenges to Authenticity Among Young Christians in Glasgow, Scotland

Cited by 62 publications

References 41 publications

Post-secular rapprochement in peripheralized regions – politics of withdrawal and parish community responses

Post-secular rapprochement in peripheralized regions – politics of withdrawal and parish community responses

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Postdevelopment and Nonsecularism in an Officially Secular State: Faith-Based Social Action in the Philippines

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