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ajiss-763	Anjum, Ovamir	From the Sacred Canopy to the Haunted Vault: Understanding Secularism from within Islam	2017.0	18	.pdf	application/pdf	8035	288	46	To use one of Taylor’s ty- Editorial xiii pologies—and he offers more than one—secularism could be philosophical, which is the same as atheism; it could be social, which means the decline of indicators such as church attendance and ritual significance in social norms and relations; and finally, there is political secularism. The logic of why French laïcité functions differently from American secularism cannot be understood as if secularism were no more than a volume on a CD player that could be turned up to yield an “assertive” French secularism or down to furnish a “passive” American or Canadian one.11 Rather, as Asad, Agrama, and others have shown, secularism functions through and is the ide- ology of the modern nation-state, which asserts its sovereign authority by en- acting the requisite separations in order to protect the public sphere or public order from the competing authority of religious claims.	cache/ajiss-763.pdf	txt/ajiss-763.txt