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Available until 04/13/2030 With MOHAMAD AMER MEZIANE An episode of the documentary series Les idées grandes with Laura Raim can be found here: https://shorturl.at/dfIN2 In France, we can say that we are lucky to live in a secular society, in which the Church has lost its political power and where religion is confined to the private sphere. We generally refer to “secularization” as this phenomenon that would have seen Western societies free themselves from the reign of religion. And we consider that it is an internal process in Europe, revealing its modernity. The philosopher Mohamad Amer Meziane debunks this story. In his book “Des empires sous la terre” (La Découverte, 2021), he offers a completely different story. For him, there has never been a decline in religion, we have simply started to sacralize other things. And the proclamation of a world emancipated from God has fundamentally been a tool of Western imperialism and industrialization. What is the relationship between secularization and colonialism? Are we really less religious than before? How has secularism changed the world? References: Mohamad Amer Meziane, Empires Under the Earth, Ecological and Racial History of Secularization, La Découverte, 2021 Mohamad Amer Meziane, At the Edge of the Worlds, Towards a Metaphysical Anthropology, Views of the Mind, 2023 Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, volume II, Aubier-Montaigne, 1941 Edward Said, Orientalism, Pantheon Books, 1978. (Edward Said, Orientalism, Paris, Seuil, 1980). #religion #secularism #arte Subscribe to the ARTE channel / @arte Follow us on social networks! Facebook: / artetv Twitter: / artefr Instagram: / artefr