The question "What Might an Anthropology of [this concept] Look Like?" appears in a book that opens by challenging Rawls's distinction between "core principles" and "background justifications.
The question "What Might an Anthropology of [this concept] Look Like?" appears in a book that opens by challenging Rawls's distinction between "core principles" and "background justifications." That book on the "Formations of" this concept is by Talal Asad. Another book on this concept rejects the "subtraction story" of its origin, and claims that it created a "Nova Effect" resulting in intense cross-pressures on individual belief. That book claims that the ascendance of this idea is characterized by the transition from porous to buffered selves and the creation of an "immanent frame." Peter Berger backtracked on his prediction in The Sacred Canopy that (*) industrial capitalism and pluralism would cause the triumph of this notion. This kind of "Age" gives its title to a Charles Taylor book. Max Weber's three pronged theory of the development of this notion is hinged on social stratification, individualism, and scientific achievement. A key text for its development in the United States was a letter sent to the Danbury Baptist Association, which used the phrase "wall of separation". For 10 points, name this concept, exemplified by French laÃ¯citÃ©, in which religion is severed from public life.
The question "What Might an Anthropology of [this concept] Look Like?" appears in a book that opens by challenging Rawls's distinction between "core principles" and "background justifications.
secularity [or secularism; or secularization; accept separation of church and state]