Secular and religious visions of this civilization remain locked in an open contest.

Evidence

The struggle continues, within these two countries and elsewhere, between two different versions of what was originally a common civilization. The outcome remains far from certain. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 315

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Secular and religious frames obscure persistent messianic assumptions in nationalism. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 318; The secular cannot be conceived without the category of religion. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 972; Secular ideologies need quasi-religious rituals to resist collapse. — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality: The…, 275 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Secular and religious frames obscure persistent messianic assumptions in nationalism. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 318; The secular cannot be conceived without the category of religion. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 972; Secular ideologies need quasi-religious rituals to resist collapse. — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality: The…, 275 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• The secular cannot be conceived without the category of religion. #complicates (0.78) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 972
• The religious and secular are not essentially fixed categories. #complicates (0.76) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 103
• European civilization persists through secularized Christian institutional heritage even as belief declines #complicates (0.73)