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In and Out of Terror: The Vertigo of Secularization
- Hypatia
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 18, Number 1, Winter 2003
- pp. 183-196
- Article
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The key concept is "vertigo of secularization." It relates to the fears that societies experience when understanding the need to ground their political orders as separated from religion. The erosion of values produces vertigos around the world. We need to understand better these kinds of processes because only by doing so can we keep that fear and violence from taking precedence over the hard working tasks of building up a global political community.