Formulation of the Claim

Modernity, secularization, and globalization reorder the relationship between religion and politics, but they do not put an end to the question of meaning or settle the crisis of legitimacy.

Why Do These Elements Come Together?

Secularization, in its multiple meanings, does not eliminate religiosity or solve the crisis of meaning and Modernity separated politics from religion but did not end the crisis of legitimacy converge on one idea: separating religion and politics is not enough on its own to resolve the crisis, because the need for meaning and for legitimacy remains. Secularization here is not understood as a negation of religion, but as a transformation in its position and function, while modernity reveals that shifting authority into the modern political sphere does not remove the question of its basis.

Freedom of conscience requires a secular model that goes beyond religious domination adds that these transformations are not complete unless freedom of conscience is protected from any religious hegemony. Likewise, The contemporary world system imposes a re-foundation of law and knowledge and The decline of state centrality under globalization move the discussion to a broader level, where forms of authority and knowledge are changing under the pressure of the world system and globalization. In this horizon, The conflict with the West is historical and structural, and is fed by global hegemony shows that tension with the West is not understood merely as a passing political disagreement, but as a long-standing conflict whose intensity is nourished by global domination. And Modernity did not end religion but reshaped its conflicts and discourse confirms that modernity did not bring religion to an end; it changed its place and the forms of disagreement around it.

The Collection’s Position in the Book

This page appears in a context that links the modern transformations in secularization and modernity to globalization and to the questions that remain open regarding conscience, authority, and knowledge. It gathers elements that show that the transfer of politics into a modern horizon does not mean religion disappears from the public sphere, but rather that its presence and conflict are reconfigured within new conditions. In this position, the page connects to a broader argument that sees modern transformation as not settling questions of legitimacy and meaning, but rather restating them in different forms.

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Brief Evidence

This page describes major transformations in the relationship between religion and politics, but it affirms that secularization and modernity do not eliminate the crisis of meaning nor settle the question of legitimacy. Even as institutions change and authority moves into a modern horizon, religion remains present in the public sphere in new forms of tension and negotiation. These elements come together because each one redistributes the relationship among conscience, authority, and knowledge without eliminating it. For that reason, the question of legitimacy remains open within both religion and politics, not only after them.

Conclusion

These elements come together because they describe intertwined transformations: a secularization that does not erase religiosity, a modernity that does not end the crisis of legitimacy, and a globalization that redistributes authority and knowledge. The question of meaning and legitimacy therefore remains present within both religion and politics, rather than being settled by the move to modernity alone.

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