Автор |
Apffel-Marglin, Frédérique |
Дата выпуска |
1998 |
dc.description |
This paper argues that secularism as a concept and practice arose from the need in 16th and 17th century Europe to create a neutral space making possible intra- as well as inter-State discourse. This neutral space was from the beginning part of the emerging scientific revolution; it transposed in a different key the dogmatic unicity of the two warring religious denominations. Secular science created the 'sacred/spiritual' as an other-worldly domain totally separate from this-worldly realms of nature and society. By looking at an important festival in coastal Orissa taking place in a so-called 'sacred grove', the paper argues that the category of sacred thus wielded does violence to a different reality where unicity and the sacred/secular dichotomy, among others, are not found. Rather than essentialist categories, local practice conjures a dynamic, shifting, alternating reality, in which no single principle or reality dominates. The paper argues that unicity is lethal to diversity and that secular nation-states have everywhere adopted science as both a strengthening and legitimising tool, thus endangering diversity. Newly emergent religious 'fundamentalisms' negatively mirror the unicity of the secular nation-state, whereas much of local practice retains its diversity-generating ways of life. |
Издатель |
Sage Publications |
Название |
Secularism, unicity and diversity: The case of Haracandi's grove |
Тип |
Journal Article |
DOI |
10.1177/006996679803200204 |
Print ISSN |
0069-9667 |
Журнал |
Contributions to Indian Sociology |
Том |
32 |
Первая страница |
217 |
Последняя страница |
235 |
Аффилиация |
Apffel-Marglin, Frédérique, Department of Anthropology, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063, USA |
Выпуск |
2 |
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