The Normative Power of Secularism. Tunisian Ennahda's Discourse on Religion, Politics, and the State (2011–2016)

By critically engaging the literature on the inclusion-moderation hypothesis, this paper seeks to show how the normative structure of secularism constitutes, enables, and restricts the discursive space in which Islamists can justify political action. It analyzes changes in Tunisian Ennahda's di...

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Published in:Politics and religion 2019-09, Vol.12 (3), p.478-500
Main Author: Pfeifer, Hanna
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Authoritarianism
Debates
Democracy
Discourse
Hypotheses
Islam
Islamism
Islamization
Moderation
Political action
Political parties
Politics
Power
Religion
Religion & politics
Secularism
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Summary:By critically engaging the literature on the inclusion-moderation hypothesis, this paper seeks to show how the normative structure of secularism constitutes, enables, and restricts the discursive space in which Islamists can justify political action. It analyzes changes in Tunisian Ennahda's discourse (2011–2016) as an attempt to navigate between standards of recognition imposed on them by the normative power of secularism on the one hand, and what they can convincingly integrate into their own platform on the other hand.
ISSN:1755-0483
1755-0491
DOI:10.1017/S1755048319000075