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Distinctive or Professionalised? Understanding the Postsecular in Faith-Based Responses to Trafficking, Forced Labour and Slavery in the UK.
- Source :
- Sociology; Jun2021, Vol. 55 Issue 3, p505-521, 17p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- This article examines the intersection of religious faith and the 'fight against modern slavery' in the UK, as yet unexplored in sociological literature. Analysis of faith-based organisations' activities in this area challenges understandings of a postsecular rapprochement between faith and secular actors – where postsecular is used by some scholars to refer to the re-emergence of faith in the public sphere, and where we understand rapprochement to mean the placing of equal value on faith-based and secular worldviews. Our research reveals that faith-based organisations in the anti-trafficking/modern slavery third sector operate on a 'dual register', secularising as they professionalise their public face, while retaining religious distinctiveness when engaging with co-religionists. We argue that, rather than evidence of a genuine two-way postsecular rapprochement, it seems that faith-based organisations in this sector are prioritising secular modalities, meaning the learning process is one-sided rather than complementary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- HUMAN trafficking
FORCED labor
SLAVERY
PLURALISM
CRIMES against humanity
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00380385
- Volume :
- 55
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Sociology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 150796106
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038520967887