Is Planning ‘Secular’? Rethinking Religion, Secularism, and Planning
@article{Manouchehrifar2018IsP, title={Is Planning ‘Secular’? Rethinking Religion, Secularism, and Planning}, author={Babak Manouchehrifar}, journal={Planning Theory \& Practice}, year={2018}, volume={19}, pages={653 - 677} }
ABSTRACT Responding to the call for a deeper understanding of the religious phenomenon in planning – advanced, among others, by Leonie Sandercock and June Thomas in this journal – this paper argues that understanding religion in planning entails understanding religion’s constitutive other: secularism. This position draws on the burgeoning field of secular studies as well as examples of entanglement of religion, secularism, and planning in the United States and France. It problematizes a long…
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