SHARIA, RELIGION AND SECULARIZATION A possible dialogue?

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Atilla Kus
Wagner Lopez Sanchez

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The paper aims to examine the compatibility between the concepts of secularization and sharia present in Islam. The assumption underlying the text is that there is compatibility between these two historical realities. The object of this article is relevant to the Study of religion because it examines the Islam-modernity binomial. The central nucleus of the article is divided into four parts. In the first part, we try to show the origin of the word sharia and its importance in the Islamic religion. The second part examines the concept of religion in Islam. In the third part (Secularization) the concept of secularization is presented based on three authors: Casanova, Gritti, and Luckmann. Finally, the text discusses and demonstrates that it is possible to sustain compatibility between secularism and sharia and dialogue between these two realities based on the example of Turkey.

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KUS, Atilla; SANCHEZ, Wagner Lopez. SHARIA, RELIGION AND SECULARIZATION: A possible dialogue? . INTERAÇÕES, Belo Horizonte, v. 16, n. 2, p. 310–324, 2021. DOI: 10.5752/P.1983-2478.2021v16n2p310-324. Disponível em: https://periodicos.pucminas.br/interacoes/article/view/25942. Acesso em: 9 aug. 2025.
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Atilla Kus, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo

Master e doctoral student in Religious Studies from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. Member of the Center for the Study of Alternative Religions and of Oriental Origin in Brazil from PUC-SP. Member of the Middle East and Muslim World Working Group at USP.

   

Wagner Lopez Sanchez, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo

PhD in Social Sciences from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. Professor of the Postgraduate Program in Science of Religion at PUC-SP and of Instituto São Paulo de Estudos Superiores.

 

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