In its initial research project description, the Centre for Advanced Studies
in Humanities and Social Sciences (CASHSS) took a position on the
longstanding academic and public debates on secularism, secularisation,
and secularity. In doing so, it referred to the concept of Multiple
Secularities, which had been developed in a previous research project,1 and
which Kleine had applied to pre-modern Japan.2 Against this backdrop,
an idea arose for a multidisciplinary project combining sociology, history
of religion and study of religions.
‘Secularity’ is an analytical concept, which seeks to avoid the ideological
connotations of the term secularism. The term, which is conceived as
an ideal-type, describes how conceptual distinctions and institutional
differentiations are made between religious and non-religious spheres and
practices. In this context, ‘differentiation’ is not a complete separation,
but entails some form of relation between two conceptually distinguished
spheres.:1 Introduction and Background ................................................................................. 3
1.1 History of the Research Project.......................................................................... 3
1.2 The Academic Debate.......................................................................................... 5
1.3 Current State of Research in Selected Research Areas..................................10
2 Research Findings from the First Funding Period (2016-2020)........................13
2.1 Further Developing and Refining the Concept..............................................13
2.2 Assumptions and Hypotheses..........................................................................15
2.2.1 Internal Social Differentiation − Social Structures.....................................15
2.2.2 Taxonomies, Classifications, Knowledge Systems: Epistemic Structures.. 18
2.2.3 Differentiation of Spheres of Activity.........................................................24
2.2.4 Reference Problems and Guiding Ideas.......................................................26
2.2.5 Cultural Interaction and Acquisition, Transfer, and Integration
Processes...........................................................................................................29
3 The Centre for Advanced Studies’ Aims in the Second Funding Period
(2020−2024)..............................................................................................................30
3.1 Regional Expansion and Intercultural Encounter.........................................30
3.2 Systematic Perspectives.....................................................................................37
3.2.1 Critical Junctures and Path Probabilities.....................................................37
3.2.2 Culturalisation of Religion, Materiality of the Secular...............................38
3.2.3 Art, Culture, and Architecture as Spheres of Activity................................42
4 Bibliography..............................................................................................................45
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:73310 |
| Date | 13 January 2021 |
| Creators | Kleine, Christoph, Wohlrab-Sahr, Monika |
| Contributors | Kolleg-Forschergruppe 'Multiple Secularities - Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersion, doc-type:workingPaper, info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-167259, https://doi.org/10.36730/2020.1.msbwbm, 2700-5518, qucosa:16725 |
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