The religious and secular are co-constitutive, not opposed spheres

Evidence

The postsecularists are on more solid ground in acknowledging that “the religious and the secular are co-constitutive, indelibly intertwined, each structuring and suffusing the sphere of the other.” In the case of Abbas and Mahmood, however, this insight comes to be less important than enumerating the inadequacies of secularism in its dealings with religion. Were we to explore this insight further and apply it to a literary text such as Minaret, we would see that a number of the book’s motifs and assumptions make a broad appeal to deep structures of feeling that go beyond a supposed Western/Islamic divide. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 501

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the postsecularist position that religion and secularism are co-constitutive rather than opposed.
• XREF: Connects to Morey’s larger claim that fiction can dissolve the Western/Islamic divide — directly relevant to reading Hamid and Naqvi. — connects to: Secularization in Belfast privatized institutions but not popular religion’s territorial marking. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 2305; Secularism is not a neutral doctrine but a modern construct redefining religion and politics — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 295; Religion and nationalism are modern categories co-created by the secular order, not ancient givens. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 306 (+1 more)