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Open "Laicity” and Secularity versus Ideological Secularism: Lessons from Switzerland

Müller, Denis

In: Christian Bioethics, 2009, vol. 15, no. 1, p. 74-85

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    Titre
    • Open "Laicity” and Secularity versus Ideological Secularism: Lessons from Switzerland
    Auteur
    • Müller, Denis. Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Type de document
    • Postprint
    Langue
    • Anglais
    Publié dans
    • Christian Bioethics, 2009, vol. 15, no. 1, p. 74-85. Oxford University Press
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    Identifiant OAI-PMH
    • oai:doc.rero.ch:289281
    Summary
    In order to avoid both religious intolerance and religious indifference, we need to develop a positive notion of an open laicity or secularity that permits us to respect our religiously plural as well as secular contemporary situation. Open laicity or secularity is the practical and political consequence of a Protestant theology and spirituality. It represents a critical answer to the disaster of secularism and laicism. Most of the difficulties in the discussion between traditionalist Christians (Orthodox, Catholic, or Evangelical!) and modern, critical Christians (Protestant, Catholic, and maybe some Orthodox too!) come from a confusion between the danger of secularism and laicism, that this article criticizes very deeply, and the positive reality of a secular world, grounded in the very biblical and theological understanding of a created world, in which God has given to all human beings the task to behave in a rational, responsible, creative, and respectful way