Abstract
AbstractTurning our attention to the construction and maintenance of immutable mobiles, scholars can perform more detailed analyses of how different technological networks mediate secular time. This serves to establish secularity as a legitimate research topic in its own right, without making it conceptually parasitical on the concept of ‘religion’. Socio-technological networks whose function is premised on moving certain entities without deterioration mediate secular time. When these networks expand in size and complexity, so that increasing numbers of people participate in their associated practices more frequently, we call this process secularization.
Publisher
Springer International Publishing