The secularization thesis fails to account for literature like Minaret

Evidence

In this argument, I am largely following the secularization thesis as it has been applied to the English novel, with a full awareness that there is much more to be said about its nuances and sometimes outright contradictions as it plays out in slippery literary texts. Indeed, my point is to indicate the inadequacy of this thesis to a proper understanding of literary texts such as Minaret and to suggest a divergence between literary practice and critical modes of apprehending that practice when it comes to certain kinds of cultural difference. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 956

Categorization

Category: Connection Points

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