La secolarizzazione è moderna?
Journal title SOCIOLOGIA E POLITICHE SOCIALI
Author/s Rémi Brague
Publishing Year 2009 Issue 2009/2
Language Italian Pages 9 P. 43-51 File size 220 KB
DOI 10.3280/SP2009-002004
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Is Secularization Modern? - The paper is focused on the connections between secularization and modernity, and calls into question an almost unanimously accepted and largely undisputed thesis, according to which it would be possible to explain one term (secularization) through the other (modernity). Drawing from medieval history and philosophy, the author challenges the validity of such a connection between secularization and modernity. While the term "secularization" is a modern coinage and has unfolded its effects only in the modern era, the circumstances that made the process of secularization possible took shape in the Middle Ages. The epicentre of the modern earthquake is located in the Middle Ages. More precisely, the author underscores the secularizing role of the Medieval Church and proves the counter-intuitive thesis that the defence of secularization was not promoted by the Empire, nor was the defence of the sacred championed by the Church. Things went exactly the other way around.
Keywords: secularization, saeculum, catholic church, state, middle ages
Rémi Brague, La secolarizzazione è moderna? in "SOCIOLOGIA E POLITICHE SOCIALI" 2/2009, pp 43-51, DOI: 10.3280/SP2009-002004