The revenge of the words: On language’s historical and autonomous being and its effects on ‘secularisation’
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
| Field | Value | |
| Title | The revenge of the words: On language’s historical and autonomous being and its effects on ‘secularisation’ | |
| Creator | Vanhoutte, Kristof K.P. | |
| Description | What if language was an autonomous historical being? What if language’s use was not solely dependent on the intentions of the one who speaks? In this text I will test these provocative statements. Specifically, I will investigate whether language’s proclaimed historical independence can be traced in the usage of the concept of ‘secularisation’, and I will try to unveil the consequences of this operation.Contribution: Has Christianity abandoned the public stage in the ‘secularised’ and industrialised world? In this article I intend to demonstrate that this is not the case. The continuous operative presence of Christianity in our socio-political language is used as the model to prove this argument. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2020-09-30 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/hts.v76i2.6076 | |
| Source | HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies; Vol 76, No 2 (2020); 9 pages 2072-8050 0259-9422 | |
| Language | eng | |
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