Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 93 No. 4, 2023.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.53745/bs.93.4.6
Fluid Political Laicization in the Age of Identitarian Democracy : from Egalitarian to Identitarian Individualism
Hrvoje Špehar
orcid.org/0000-0001-7950-5471
; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The article analyses the development of political laicization, as an aspect of the process of secularization understood in the institutional form of autonomy and distance between Church and Politics. Political laicization is analysed with regard to the stages of its historical development: as the initial authoritarian and anti-clerical laicization, as a secondary laicization of open pluralism and as a »fluid«, because it largely deviates from rigid and anticlerical opposition to dominant churches in the forms of public-legal institutionalization of separation of religious communities and the state, and from anticlerical patterns of political and public activity. The article relies heavily on the research of Marcel Gauchet, Jean Baubérot, Micheline Millot, Martin Rohnheimer, Jean Picq, Neil MacCormick, Michel Foucault and others, and it seeks to explore how much the change and transformation of the role of identities has contributed to the changed role of political and public action, described as an era of acceptance of identities, and which has its repercussions on the formats of political laicization.
Keywords
political laicization; fluid laicization; age of identities; egalitarian individualism; identitarian individualism
Hrčak ID:
313225
URI
Publication date:
11.1.2024.
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