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...Talal Asad Abstract This essay is an attempt at thinking through Wittgenstein's philosophy in order to clarify some aspects of what people call “religion.” Central to it is an exploration of the polarity between belief and practice and an attempt to reframe that polarity in terms of the mutually...

... arising from the love of the minor, the essay suggests, cannot be thought save by way of “religion.” The essay explores how Ambedkar and Gandhi give a distinctive inflection to the conventional association of religion with the sacred and sacrifice. From their thinking of religion, it suggests, a range...

.../impermanence), which plays a central role in his search for a nontheological democratic politics. In order to explore the implications of such a politics, the article brings Ambedkar into conversation with Claude Lefort and his theorization of the relationships between politics, religion, and democracy...

...Charles Hirschkind Abstract In the lead essay to this special section, Talal Asad explores some of the avenues opened up by Wittgenstein's work for students of religion. Highlighting some of the philosopher's key insights on the life of language, Asad argues that, instead of taking the opposition...

... to come” for an understanding of his approach to art, history, philosophy, and religion. This philosophy of crystallization, of which there has been little or no mention in Fanonian studies, is also contrasted with and compared to works by the Guinean poet Keita Fodéba and the Iranian critic Ali Shariʿati...

...). Saba Mahmood secularism religion feminism anthropology ethics photo used with permission of charles hirschkind. photo used with permission of charles hirschkind. This special section collects memorial essays and testimonies on the life, work, and legacy of Saba Mahmood, who died...

...Khaled Furani © 2020 Khaled Furani 2020 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Let us suppose that for a long time now, in the modern West, religion has been the name of a certain wound. I am specifically referring...

... cartoons for their caricature of Muḥammad, did it follow that she supported censorship and restrictions on free speech? In the case of the secular state, she sought to point out that political states that define themselves as secular often actively engage in distinguishing public from private religions...

...Bruce B. Lawrence © 2020 Bruce B. Lawrence 2020 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). I am reading, absorbing, and reflecting on Talal's essay, “Thinking about Religion through Wittgenstein,” in the midst...

... of black religion, these fields echo some of the problematics that early black liberationists and womanists identified—but with an important difference. The nontheological methods for the legitimation of knowledge in the study of Africana religions have allowed scholars to question black theology's...

... need acknowledgment and engagement by academic political theory remains an open question, one that I have explored elsewhere. 3 In this piece, Talal Asad engages in his usual insightful and generous manner with Wittgenstein, but the intuition about religion that he elaborates comes from...

... of social, political, economic, and religious life and on the stories—the history—we are able to tell about them. She tackled colonial laws and edicts to show exactly how the dominating powers “subjected preexisting religious differences to a new grid of intelligibility,” assigning religion, family...

... There, al-Afghānī attacked philosophical positions that explain the world without reference to a transcendent God. He argued that Islam is the religion of reason and transcendence. The second set of documents were written seven years later. The famous anti-Semitic philologist Ernest Renan delivered...

... silence. This figure of the “dissolution of language” appears with consistency (if in various guises) across Asad's writings, though perhaps nowhere more so than in his present essay on Wittgenstein and religion. Asad's reading of the philosopher reveals a strong convergence in their two styles of inquiry...

... as complete what was only written in pieces and by chance.” 13 Nancy argues that it is an exscription of finitude as against inscription toward infinity. And this could be applied to Dalits’ disengagement with caste and Brahminism, and their creative exploration with anti-caste religions—specifically...

... in the ancient traditions of the religion of Hindostan. That religion is at once a religion of sensualist exuberance, and a religion of self-torturing asceticism ; a religion of the Lingam and of the juggernaut; the religion of the Monk, and of the Bayadere . 14 Moreover, for Marx, “However changing...

...Gil Anidjar © 2020 Gil Anidjar 2020 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Man könnte auch sagen: einer denkt, wenn er in bestimmter Weise lernt. —Wittgenstein When speaking of “religions,” one is likely...

..., as well as in modern Afrocentric discourse. The people of Kemet were known for their advances in architecture, art, literature, religion, mathematics, astronomy, medicine, and other fields, and their legacy has had a profound impact on human history and culture. 6. In Vodou, Djovi are children...

... reappearing as objects that could only be explained as motivated by religion or morality or violent political extremism. The fatwas as part of broader and longer Islamic and Indian Ocean discursive traditions indexed a form of life that had always posed a challenge to projects of worldmaking—even of the ulama...

...: Religion is the oldest of archives in our subcontinent. All the principal moments of the ancient relationship of dominance and subordination are recorded in it as codes of authority, collaboration and resistance. . . . Congealed and generalised through recursive use over long periods, they tend to outlive...