Post‐Christendom Ignorance in Secular Society.
In banning religious symbols for civil servants in a position of authority, Québec's laicity law disproportionately burdens religious minorities. Nevertheless, politicians seem to somehow avoid this problem, and the law is largely supported by the population. This insensitivity to religious discrimi...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Applied Philosophy Vol. 42; no. 1; pp. 431 - 450 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Feb2025
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=183977274&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 183977274 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 02643758 BQ0 jtl: Journal of Applied Philosophy issn: 02643758 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Feb2025 vid: 42 iid: 1 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell artinfo: ui: 183977274 10.1111/japp.12776 ppf: 431 ppct: 19 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 274KB tig: atl: Post‐Christendom Ignorance in Secular Society. aug: au: Beauchamp, Gilles affil: Department of Philosophy, McGill University, Montreal QC, , Canada su: Religious minorities Ignorance (Theory of knowledge) Secularism Religious symbols Prejudices Hermeneutics Church & state sug: subj: Religious minorities Ignorance (Theory of knowledge) Secularism Religious symbols Prejudices Hermeneutics Church & state ab: In banning religious symbols for civil servants in a position of authority, Québec's laicity law disproportionately burdens religious minorities. Nevertheless, politicians seem to somehow avoid this problem, and the law is largely supported by the population. This insensitivity to religious discrimination calls for an explanation. I argue that part of the explanation for this unequal treatment of religion in secular society lies in active religious ignorance. Drawing a parallel from how white ignorance functions to protect racial inequalities, I argue that a kind of active ignorance in the religious domain – which I name post‐Christendom ignorance – makes it difficult to comprehend alternative understandings of religious experience and allows the majority to deny its religious positionality. Applying this framework, I criticize Québec's laicity law for wrongfully relying on inadequate hermeneutical resources about religion. Further, the failure to see that targeting only religious symbols worn by individuals is discriminatory is the result of the epistemic vice of closed‐mindedness. This article aims to show how religious persons in secular society can suffer hermeneutical wrongs because of their religious identity, and it aims to show that this injustice in the epistemic domain can help explain the unequal treatment of religious minorities while providing grounds for criticism. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Journal of Applied Philosophy is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Journal of Applied Philosophy holder: Wiley-Blackwell dt: @attributes: year: 2025 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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