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No. 2(5) (2013): Post-Secularisms

Constructed Evil, Encoded Sacred: Jeffrey Alexanders Cultural Pragmatics and the Idea of Secularization

  • Grzegorz Brzozowski
DOI
https://doi.org/10.51196/srz.5.8
Published
1. 11. 2013

Abstract

The article presents an overview of chosen concepts of cultural pragmatics, central for reconstructing Jeffrey Alexander’s understanding of the secularisation process. Special attention is paid to the binary cultural codes of sacred-profane, ritual-like performance, iconicity, the moral discourse of civil society, as well as the analysis of socially constructed evil as a dark side of modernity.

References

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  17. Źródła internetowe:
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