Hegel On Secularity And Consummated Religion
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The relation of religion to secular order has once more assumed centre stage in the renewed conflict between secular democracies and a traditional religiosity turned fiercely political. The extreme development of the former had seen politics represented as the only true redemption and religion condemned as the malaise of self-alienated humanity, to be purged altogether or rendered subordinate to political-economic interests. The struggle between various forms of the humanist ideal state produced two world wars and half a millennium of deadly global tensions, issuing in what finally has been seen as the triumph of technocratic liberalism. But as it has turned out, the end of history must be postponed as a religiosity thought to be slumbering has abruptly awakened to terrorize the global order from within, seeking the restoration of a theocratic fusion of religion and state. The question of the relation of otherworldly to worldly interests has accordingly taken on new and unexpected urgency in the confrontation between an atavistic religious extremism and the western secularism it judges decadent and satanic. A generation in the habit of thinking the relation of religion to public life had been a matter already settled finds itself obliged to consider it anew.
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