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Fallacy of Equivocation: Indian Secularism

By hipkapi March 16, 2011 concept(category), Jakob, secular

While reading Shabnum Tejani’s Indian Secularism: A Social and Intellectual History (2008), I ran into the same weird point that Neera Chandhoke also tried to make at the RRI platform…

Atheism: a secularized theism—Jakob de Roover

By hipkapi March 5, 2011 atheism, Christianity, Jakob, secularization

1: Atheism is a phenomenon that came into being in the western culture at around the time of the so-called Enlightenment. The West claims that it liberated itself from the…

What makes Christianity a religion? The structure of Christianity as a religion

By hipkapi March 5, 2011 Christianity, Jakob

The logical steps that inevitably make the claim that God revealed His Will in Jesus Christ into an unconditional and exclusive truth claim are fairly simple: (a) Christianity says that…

Secularized Christian Belief: Religion is a cultural/human universal

By hipkapi March 3, 2011 Jakob, secularization

One of these so-called secular accounts that are in fact Christian is the belief that all cultures have a religion. It is simply a secularization of the Christian belief that…