Secularism: Conceptual Genealogy or Political Dilemma?

If we step back and consider the words around which critiques and debates have crystallized in recent years, some have been relatively clear, while others have been constantly in need of disambiguation. Even during the most drawn-out of debates over nationalism or revolution, and despite the arguments over definitions and typologies, we had the sense that we were all talking about the same thingthat is why the debates could move along, adding new perspectives, disputing whether this or that author had placed enough stress on class position, or industrialization, or ideas. Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 2010.