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Varieties of Deprivatization: Revisiting Religious Communities in the Public Sphere

Varieties of Deprivatization: Revisiting Religious Communities in the Public Sphere 1. Public Religions Under the Conditions of Globalization This issue’s thematic section on Religious Communities in the Public Sphere brings together three revised papers presented in the course of a joint panel organized by Hans G. Kippenberg at the twentieth World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR) in Toronto in 2010. All papers have one common denominator: they explore a religious studies perspective on current discussions about the variety of religious deprivatization. In doing so, they start from discussions that gained considerable momentum with José Casanova’s modern classic Public Religions in the Modern World (1994) and its central hypothesis that: “we are witnessing the ‘deprivatization’ of religion in the modern world. By deprivatization I mean the fact that religious traditions throughout the world are refusing to accept the marginal and privatized role which theories of modernity as well as theories of secularization had reserved for them.” 1 In this quotation Casanova highlights the two main dimensions of his approach to public religions. On the one hand, he suggests that we are witnessing a deprivatization of religions and a return of religious communities to the level of the state, the party system, and—most of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Religion in Europe Brill

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© 2013 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1874-8910
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10.1163/18748929-00602001
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1. Public Religions Under the Conditions of Globalization This issue’s thematic section on Religious Communities in the Public Sphere brings together three revised papers presented in the course of a joint panel organized by Hans G. Kippenberg at the twentieth World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR) in Toronto in 2010. All papers have one common denominator: they explore a religious studies perspective on current discussions about the variety of religious deprivatization. In doing so, they start from discussions that gained considerable momentum with José Casanova’s modern classic Public Religions in the Modern World (1994) and its central hypothesis that: “we are witnessing the ‘deprivatization’ of religion in the modern world. By deprivatization I mean the fact that religious traditions throughout the world are refusing to accept the marginal and privatized role which theories of modernity as well as theories of secularization had reserved for them.” 1 In this quotation Casanova highlights the two main dimensions of his approach to public religions. On the one hand, he suggests that we are witnessing a deprivatization of religions and a return of religious communities to the level of the state, the party system, and—most of

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Journal of Religion in Europe – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2013

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