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Athéisme et sécularisme au Kenya : les tribulations des Atheists In Kenya (AIK)
As affirmed by the 2010 constitution, the Republic of Kenya is a secular country that promises both freedom of faith and freedom from religion. In practice, however, the realm of religion in Kenya is highly normative. The 2010s have seen the rise of a group seeking to challenge this status quo: Athe...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9893031/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36741302 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00377686221105780 |
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author | Maupeu, Hervé Gez, Yonatan N. Droz, Yvan |
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description | As affirmed by the 2010 constitution, the Republic of Kenya is a secular country that promises both freedom of faith and freedom from religion. In practice, however, the realm of religion in Kenya is highly normative. The 2010s have seen the rise of a group seeking to challenge this status quo: Atheists in Kenya (AIK). The group met with fierce resistance, and its attempt to register as a legal society ended before the country’s High Court. AIK’s activism turned it into a social movement that demands a reexamination of the close ties between religion and the State. It is thus an important participant in a wide debate on secularism in Kenya. In addition, AIK may be read as a testimony to the country’s present stage of democratization, which allows – if sometimes reluctantly – for new modes of social action and for the expression of claims that were formerly kept in check. |
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spelling | pubmed-98930312023-02-03 Athéisme et sécularisme au Kenya : les tribulations des Atheists In Kenya (AIK) Maupeu, Hervé Gez, Yonatan N. Droz, Yvan Soc Compass Varia As affirmed by the 2010 constitution, the Republic of Kenya is a secular country that promises both freedom of faith and freedom from religion. In practice, however, the realm of religion in Kenya is highly normative. The 2010s have seen the rise of a group seeking to challenge this status quo: Atheists in Kenya (AIK). The group met with fierce resistance, and its attempt to register as a legal society ended before the country’s High Court. AIK’s activism turned it into a social movement that demands a reexamination of the close ties between religion and the State. It is thus an important participant in a wide debate on secularism in Kenya. In addition, AIK may be read as a testimony to the country’s present stage of democratization, which allows – if sometimes reluctantly – for new modes of social action and for the expression of claims that were formerly kept in check. SAGE Publications 2022-07-02 2022-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9893031/ /pubmed/36741302 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00377686221105780 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Varia Maupeu, Hervé Gez, Yonatan N. Droz, Yvan Athéisme et sécularisme au Kenya : les tribulations des Atheists In Kenya (AIK) |
title | Athéisme et sécularisme au Kenya : les tribulations des Atheists In Kenya (AIK) |
title_full | Athéisme et sécularisme au Kenya : les tribulations des Atheists In Kenya (AIK) |
title_fullStr | Athéisme et sécularisme au Kenya : les tribulations des Atheists In Kenya (AIK) |
title_full_unstemmed | Athéisme et sécularisme au Kenya : les tribulations des Atheists In Kenya (AIK) |
title_short | Athéisme et sécularisme au Kenya : les tribulations des Atheists In Kenya (AIK) |
title_sort | athéisme et sécularisme au kenya : les tribulations des atheists in kenya (aik) |
topic | Varia |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9893031/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36741302 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00377686221105780 |
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