الربيع ٢٠٢١، القاهرةمقرر موضوعي

Religion and politics: What sort of justice after secularisation?

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الدورة: الربيع ٢٠٢١، القاهرة
المدة: ١٢ أسبوعًا
طريقة الحضور: مدمج
لغة التدريس: الإنجليزية

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عن المقرر

Secularisation, which has gradually identified itself with the project of "European modernity", can be defined as a process which emancipates societies from the constraints that religious institutions exert on them. The secularisation of modern societies, which is related to a process of rationalisation, would thus make it possible to separate religion from the modern state and to confine religion to the private sphere. In this course we will study how this theory of secularisation has been criticised by intellectuals, believers and non-believers alike, who did not define themselves as anti-modern but thought following different approaches that religion could not be detached from the political desire for justice. Together we will reflect on the borders of religion and politics in the colonial and post-colonial world, and how the process of secularisation has revealed the contingent and non-universal character of this partition opening up ways to the pursuit of justice.

This course will be divided into three parts. The first part will aim at understanding the emergence of the concept of secularization at the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century, and the partition between politics and religion that it implied. In the second part, we will see how Liberation theology, which has been developed in Latin America from the second half of the 20th century, sought, by acknowledging the modern division between state and religion, to revive the prophetic tradition of the Old Testament concerning the liberation of the oppressed people. Finally, in the third part, we will analyze how secularization, as established in the colonial and post-colonial world, has led to a new comprehension of the division between politics and religion, as it has been structured in modernity, and the relevance of the very concept of secularization.

مَن يقدّم المقرر

Marie-Nil CHOUNET is a former student of the École normale supérieure (ENS Ulm) and the École nationale d'administration (ENA) in France. She graduated in philosophy, sociology and law from the Sorbonne Université and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS). Her research thesis was on Henri Bergson's philosophy of religion. She has also taught French civilization at Yale University. Marie-Nil is now a judge in Paris.
من زميل التدريس
Guidelines
- The goal of the course is twofold. On the one hand, it aims at giving access to the original texts and at trying to grasp them in their historical and theoretical context, whether it be German philosophy, theology or postcolonial theory. Particular attention will thus be paid to the study of the argumentative logic of the texts, which will then allow for a precise debate on them. At each session, a student will present one of the texts to be studied, in order to open the debate between all the participants. On the other hand, the course aims at giving students the means to discuss the issues at stake in the course with specialists of these topics. Several sessions of the course will thus be devoted to live interventions, via Zoom, of philosophers and sociologists with whom the students will discuss the texts studied. A group of students will be responsible, for each session, for leading the debate. In this way, we will work on argumentative skills, both in writing and orally.
- The assigned readings will be sent one week in advance, and are meant to provide a solid basis for our in-class discussions. It is, therefore, important to acquire yourself with the texts before class.

مسار المقرر

يُعرض ١٢ جلسة

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Part I : Secularization and the division between politics and religion.
- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of CapitalismMax Weber. London, Routledge. (Excerpt).
- Modern Capitalism, vol. 1Werner Sombart, K A Nitz, Wellington (Excerpt).
- Protestantism and Progress: A Historical Study of the Relation of Protestantism to the Modern WorldErnst Troeltsch. Boston, Beacon Press. (Excerpt).
- The Essence of ChristianityLudwig Feuerbach. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., New York: Harper & Row (Excerpt).
- Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of RightKarl Marx, Cambridge University Press, Joseph O’Malley (Excerpt).
- Atheism in Christianity: The Religion of the Exodus and the KingdomErnst Bloch, Verso Books, United Kingdom (Excerpt).
- The politics of heresy: the modernist crisis in Roman CatholicismLester R. Kurtz, University of California Press (Excerpt).
- The Two Sources of Morality and ReligionHenri Bergson, Andesite Press (Excerpt).
- Integral HumanismJacques Maritain, University of Notre Dame Press (Excerpt).
- The Need for Roots: prelude towards a declaration of duties towards mankindSimone Weil, Routledge (Excerpt).
- True and False Reform in the ChurchYves Congar, Collegeville, MN, Liturgical Press (Excerpt).
- After VirtueAlasdair MacIntyre. Third edition. University of Notre Dame Press (Excerpt).
- The Myth of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern ConflictWilliam Cavanaugh. Oxford: Oxford University Press (Excerpt).
- The Blackwell Companion to Political TheologyScott, Peter and William Cavanaugh, eds. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing (Excerpt).
Part II: Liberation Theology: justice, politics and religion in modernity.
- A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics and SalvationGustavo Gutierrez. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis. Rev. ed. with second intr..
- Introducing Liberation TheologyC. and L. Boff, London, Burns and Oates. (Excerpt).
- Movement or Moment? Assessing Liberation Theology Forty Years After MedellínClaffey, Patrick, and Joe Egan, eds, Bern: Peter Lang. (Excerpt).
- A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics and SalvationGustavo Gutierrez. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis. Rev. ed. with second intr.
- A Black Theology of LiberationJames H. Cone. Philadelphia: Lippincott. (Excerpt).
- The war of gods. Religion and Politics in Latin AmericaMichael Löwy, London, Verso, 1996. (Excerpt).
- On Job: God-Talk and the Suffering of the InnocentGustavo Gutierrez. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis. (Excerpt).
- The Power of the Poor in HistoryGustavo Gutiérrez, London, SCM, 1983 (Excerpt).
- Extra Pauperes Nulla Salus: A Short Utopian-Prophetic Essay.Jon Sobrino. In Jon Sobrino (ed.), No Salvation Outside the Poor: Prophetic-Utopian Essays, 35–76. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis. (Excerpt).
- Marxism and Theology LiberationMichael Löwy, Notebooks.
- Rift Between Gutierrez and Peru Women: Liberation Theology Said to Be Too Narrow.Ruether, Rosemary Radford (1996). National Catholic Reporter, 18 Oct., p. 28.
- Two Urgent Utopias for the Twenty-First CenturyLeonardo Boff. In Marcella Althaus-Reid, Ivan Petrella, and Luiz Carlos Susin (eds), Another Possible World, 23–38. London: SCM Press. (Excerpt).
- The Future of Liberation Theology: An Argument and ManifestoPetrella, Ivan (2004). Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate.
Part III: Secularization in the colonial and post-colonial world and the desire for justice.
- OrientalismEdward W. Said, Penguin Classics (Excerpt).
- Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and IslamTalal Asad, Johns Hopkins University Press (Excerpt).
- Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, ModernityTalal Asad, Stanford University Press (Excerpt).
- Politics of Piety – The Islamic Revival and the Feminist SubjectSaba Mahmood, Princeton University Press (Excerpt).
- Is Orientalism Islamic?Mohamed Amer Meziane, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 40 (1): 219–222. (Excerpt).
- Testimonies and reflectionsLouis Massignon, University of Notre Dame press (Excerpt).
- Acts of ReligionJacques Derrida, Routledge (Excerpt).
- Islam in LiberalismJoseph A. Massad, University of Chicago Press (Excerpt).
- Justice and Only Justice: Towards a Palestinian Theology of LiberationAteek, N., Maryknoll, NY, Orbis. (Excerpt).
- Quran, Liberation and Pluralism: An Islamic Perspective of Interreligious Solidarity against OppressionEsack, F., Oxford, Oneworld. (Excerpt).
- Qur'an of the Oppressed: Liberation Theology and Gender Justice in IslamShadaab Rahemtullah, Oxford University Press, 2017 (Excerpt).