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boundary 2 (2008) 35 (3): 27–62.
Published: 01 August 2008
...Leland de la Durantaye Giorgio Agamben's work first achieved international recognition—and notoriety—through his study of the sacred in Homo Sacer . This recognition and notoriety grew with the subsequent installments in this still ongoing series, Remnants of Auschwitz ( Homo Sacer III ), State...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (3): 69–77.
Published: 01 August 2010
... of Shar`iah , or Islamic law; and other crucial concepts such as ijtihad or independent reasoning and ijma' or consensus. This essay will argue that the so-called fundamentalist versions of Islam are burdened by a literalism that has no grounding and no sanction in the sacred texts of Islam. The myth...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (2): 209–215.
Published: 01 May 2009
..., that the sacred in human society always entails interdicts, that is, imperative sacrifices of satisfactions in the name of what somehow counts more for the society? Duke University Press 2009 Another Avatar of the Circle:
Philip Rieff’s Counter-Enlightenment
What follows is a short review...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (3): 177–204.
Published: 01 August 2022
... and intentions of the Book of Ours project as a recreation of “mythic consciousness by mythopoeic activity,” and in this way lays out a path to a more “poetical and sacred” style of academic engagement...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (2): 295–313.
Published: 01 May 2022
...James A. Steintrager; Rey Chow Abstract For the past twenty years or so, the Austrian cultural theorist Robert Pfaller has been positing and analyzing the concepts of “interpassivity” (as opposed to interactivity) and the delegation of enjoyment both in sacred rituals and in relation to various...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (4): 213–220.
Published: 01 November 2020
... “liquid modernity” concept, Calasso describes the political and ethical consequences of the loss of the sacred in our unnamed, ominous present. The result of this process is the historical creation of the Homo saecularis in the age of digital culture, whose cultural inconsistency is an expression...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (2): 129–151.
Published: 01 May 2022
... to the sacred without fully laying out art's own political theology. adeboever@calarts.edu Book Reviewed: Stathis Gourgouris , The Perils of the One ( New York : Columbia University Press , 2019 ). Copyright ©2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Stathis Gourgouris The Perils...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (1): 137–153.
Published: 01 February 2013
... is idolatry—or is not socially effective religion. In religion,
words themselves—sacred words—function, and can only function, as
idols.”1 The unequivocal phrase “Every religion is idolatry” comes with an
explicit qualification, “or is not socially effective religion,” thereby under-
scoring religion...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (1): 83–135.
Published: 01 February 2013
... of democratic national-
ism. Prior to reading Political Theology: Four New Chapters on the Concept
of Sovereignty, I had come to know his ideas through The Reign of Law, Law
and Love, Putting Liberalism in Its Place, Out of Eden: Adam and Eve and
the Problem of Evil, Sacred Violence, and selected essays...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (1): 55–76.
Published: 01 February 2013
... into absurdity.
The postsecular has put much pressure on normal scholarly premises, and
sometimes the results have been both absurd and interesting at the same
time. A recent scholarly conference chose for its title “We Have Never Been
Secular: Rethinking the Sacred.”21 Both the assertion about...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2010) 37 (3): 91–99.
Published: 01 August 2010
... reason fails. In order to answer this question, they must map
an obscure terrain between a demystified sacred and a secular reason that
has turned against itself. Heidegger’s version of this terrain is well known:
he proposes a destruction of the metaphysical system that has held West-
ern...
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boundary 2 (2016) 43 (4): 155–167.
Published: 01 November 2016
....”2 He may occasionally
protest too much against the possibility—conceptual as well as political—
of the displacement of the sacred and theological as a functional engine
of secularity—for example, in his gloss on “the standard post-secularist
manipulation that sees religion everywhere...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2004) 31 (2): 35–53.
Published: 01 May 2004
... with imperial-
ism: emancipatory humanism, the ethics of coexistence, figural paradigms
of ontogenesis in world-historical forms of culture, and the ideal of trans-
latio as portal to a universal or sacred language. Such a language may be
boundary 2 31:2, 2004. Copyright © 2004 by Duke University Press...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2022) 49 (3): 205–214.
Published: 01 August 2022
... Stein, on page 392 of Technicians of the Sacred . Poetry is, I say, essentially a vocabulary just as prose is essentially not. And what is the vocabulary of which poetry absolutely is? It is a vocabulary based on the noun, as prose is essentially and determinedly and vigorously not based...
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boundary 2 (2016) 43 (2): 73–124.
Published: 01 May 2016
... Michel, “Sublime et parole de Dieu: De Saint Augustin à Fenelon,” Revue d’histoire
littéraire de la France 86, no. 1 (1986): 52–61; Debora K. Shuger, Sacred Rhetoric: The
Christian Grand Style in the English Renaissance (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
Press, 1988); Sophie Hache, La langue du...
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boundary 2 (2007) 34 (2): 149–170.
Published: 01 May 2007
... on the holy, the sacred, and
the immune? If indeed salvation refers to that which is “holy,” that which
is “sacred,” and that which is “immune,” it goes without saying that not all
forms of sacrality or sacredness and not all forms of holiness are, neces-
sarily, in the strict sense of the term...
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boundary 2 (2007) 34 (3): 87–107.
Published: 01 August 2007
... plot points bear little resemblance to the Holy Blood, Holy
Grail thesis, however.
Nelson / Faux Catholic 97
years of suppression of the “sacred feminine” by the patriarchal church,
Robert and Sophie leapfrog across England and Scotland...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2005) 32 (3): 139–168.
Published: 01 August 2005
... that will not retain sacred knowledge. The refusal to learn
the religious words provokes a disciplinary violence that cannot precisely
describe if Joe is white, black, parchment paper, or ‘‘implacable’’ like ‘‘writ-
ten words Joe’s relation to this language is strained and in severe contrast
with the sternness...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2014) 41 (2): 139–163.
Published: 01 May 2014
... in his own analysis to use the
Chinese terms. For a cogent discussion of these textual problems, see Thomas A. Wil-
son, ed., On Sacred Grounds: Culture, Society, Politics, and the Formation of the Cult of
Confucius (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002), editor’s introduction, 1–40,
esp...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2018) 45 (1): 253–272.
Published: 01 February 2018
..., however, as Emmet Larkin (1976) has shown,
a fairly recent development: the religious practices and spiritual aids fre-
quently associated with Irish Catholicism—Marian devotion and Sacred
Heart sodalities, family Rosary, and frequent confession—along with its
institutional authoritarianism...
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