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    Secularism as a Shadow of Capital: A Historical Materialist View

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    Murray, Patrick
    Journal
    Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society

    Page
    105-122

    Editor(s)
    Simkins, Ronald A.; Murray, Patrick

    Volume
    17

    Date
    2018
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    Abstract
    The lesson of historical materialism is that, to meet changing human needs, there must be a social provisioning process. “Secular society” does not describe a provisioning process. “Capitalist society” names a coherent, self-maintaining and self-reproducing provisioning process. Secular society is dependent upon a set of social principles and purposes that can organize a self-sustaining society; it is a shadow of capital. Secularism traces certain features of a capitalist society even if it leaves others in the dark, so there is reason to call a capitalist society a secular society. Historical materialism widens Charles Taylor’s focus in A Secular Age on “the conditions of belief” to the social form and purpose of the material conditions of belief and unbelief.

    Keywords: secularism, capitalism, historical materialism, instrumental reason and action, Karl Marx, Max Weber
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