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In and Out of Terror: The Vertigo of Secularization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

María Pía Lara
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Abstract

The key concept is “vertigo of secularization.” It relates to the fears that societies experience when understanding the need to ground their political orders as separated from religion. The erosion of values produces vertigos around the world. We need to understand better these kinds of processes because only by doing so can we keep that fear and violence from taking precedence over the hard working tasks of building up a global political community.

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Forum on September 11, 2001: Feminist Perspectives on Terrorism
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Hypatia , Volume 18 , Issue 1: Special Issue: Feminist Philosophy and the Problem of Evil , Winter 2003 , pp. 183 - 196
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Copyright © 2003 by Hypatia, Inc.

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