All-pervasive religion makes isolating the secular nearly impossible

Evidence

Religion is a way of life that emphasizes ethical conduct. The role that religion has in societies remains in full force. John Mbiti (1990, p. 1) recognizes that religions permeate all parts of life so completely that it is not always easy or possible to isolate it. A consequence, however, is the fact that when all is religious, it will be complicated to separate religion from the non-religious or secular. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 806

Categorization

• QUESTION: The paradox that total religiosity erases the religion/secular boundary — a tension worth chasing in Bantu philosophy’s claims about African religiosity.
• XREF: connects to: Secularism as neutral ground cannot host a public sphere because it is itself theological — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 375; Israeli ‘secular’ identity is only definable negatively as not-religious. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 774