A Post-Secular Look at Tradition: Toward a Definition of "Traditionism"

Abstract

Introduction One of the most profound changes to have engulfed the interdisciplinary study of religion, society, culture, and history has been what is now commonly termed the “post-secular” turn. This intellectual development, which has been gaining a growing momentum during the last two decades, offers a “revisionist” reconsideration of the “orthodox” paradigm of secularization. This revisionism involves practically all of the paradigm components, questioning not only the descriptive-analytical merit of the secularization thesis but also its political and philosophical implications. Critics have pointed to, among other things, the thesis's misevaluation of the role of religion—as an…