Iran’s constitutional revolution of 1906 is arguably the most significant
turn toward the secular in its modern history.1 I start this investigation by
making a conceptual distinction between secularism and secularity.2 Here,
secularism is defined as the ideologically-driven separation of religion and
state according to an agenda, a blueprint, a model, that could be indigenously,
or externally informed and is achieved with the assistance of the
modern state and explicit political motivations. Secularity, on the other
hand, is expressed in terms of a non-ideological separation that comes
about unintentionally. In some accounts, this separation may take on evolutionary
connotations in terms of the natural separation of functions as
a result of the growing complexity of a natural organism or social system.
What I have in mind here is a separation of functions that is agent-driven
but the secularity that emerges is both unintentional and unideological.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:36144 |
| Date | 14 November 2019 |
| Creators | Sohrabi, Nader |
| 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, qucosa:16725 |
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