https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/The-Advent-of-the-Secularocene https://booksandideas.net/The-Advent-of-the-Secularocene 2024-04-30T06:30:04Z text/html en Jean Baubérot History race environmentalism secularization empire Cairn.info <p>Secularisation is often presented as a Western model that was exported during decolonisation; but according to <span class="caps">M. A.</span> Meziane, it was in fact spread by colonialism itself as an instrument of domination.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Suicide-Islam-and-Politics https://booksandideas.net/Suicide-Islam-and-Politics 2011-05-06T09:48:01Z text/html en Dominique Avon International Islam religion rebellion secularization Tunisia <p>The revolts rocking the Maghreb were set off by a surge of suicides that greatly perplexed Islamic authorities. Were they a symptom of secularization, or even of a radical transgression of a Koranic prohibition?</p>