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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 324–344.
Published: 01 August 2023
... and existence. Through an immanent reading of political theology's appearance in ostensibly secular black feminist thought, the article shows how these wayward metabolizations of black theology's internal and external contradictions—specifically, those that illuminate a fundamental crisis of meaning at its...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 20–49.
Published: 01 April 2022
... this critical background, the article returns to the present, in order to reframe Scholem's distinction and to suggest that, far from negating messianic deferral, Zionism and Israeli colonial rule capture and redeploy its logic as a secular modality of power. The article concludes by inscribing this secular...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 403–442.
Published: 01 December 2020
... in the Islamic tradition over the proper understanding of apparently contradictory representations of God in the Qurʾan. Finally, it takes up the question of what Wittgenstein called “the craving for generality,” and thus the part abstraction plays in the progressive thrust of our secular, capitalist form...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 401–402.
Published: 01 December 2020
... the “grammar” of such key concepts as conviction, persuasion, and critique, Asad points to some of the ways that our secular understandings of these notions are inadequate for grasping their place within religious lives. In the latter part of the essay, Asad brings a Wittgensteinian perspective to bear...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 534–550.
Published: 01 December 2020
... and anti-caste activism in particular offer a complex interplay of caste, gender, culture, and politics in the university space, traditionally defined as neutral. Envisioning a democratic, socially just, and genuinely secular nation, historically marginalized students challenge and critique hegemonic...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 13–22.
Published: 01 April 2019
... by anthropological and social theory that take the ground of the secular as a given. As her teachers taught her, she taught us “to stay with a problem, to dwell on its multiple complexities, to push against one's own inadequacies of comprehension, and, moreover, to savor the slow process of discovery.” 11...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 25–28.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Samuli Schielke Works Cited Mahmood Saba . Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2005 . Mahmood Saba . Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report . Princeton : Princeton University Press...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 5–9.
Published: 01 April 2019
... in advance, ruling out other epistemic possibilities. Those who misunderstood her projects expected, for instance, that if she conducted a critique of the secular state, she was therefore in favor of a religious state. That conclusion was wrong, but tellingly so. Similarly, if she criticized the Danish...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 10–12.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Joan Wallach Scott Work Cited Mahmood Saba . Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2016 . 6. Mahmood, Religious Difference , 207 . 5. Mahmood, Religious Difference , 206 . 4. Mahmood...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 1–2.
Published: 01 April 2019
...). 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...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 450–455.
Published: 01 December 2020
... that “persuasion works best when the language of power is not used in confronting the one to be persuaded” (414). In contrast, visions of secular scientific progress have relied heavily on power. Their imbrication with colonialism and capitalism renders suspect the ideational and moral superiority...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 417–444.
Published: 01 December 2021
... and career, that they have nothing left to offer but possibly a promise of thinking the human and life anew in relation to nonhumans and nonlife; however, for that promise even to be intelligible in secular academe, we require other histories and genealogies of worldmaking, which in turn require a more...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 471–477.
Published: 01 December 2020
.... The demand to respond, for which he invites us to hesitate, is integral to the conscripting force of secular-modern power, by which forms of life are undermined and remade in accordance with the demands of modern society. It is in this context that Asad will bring us back repeatedly to the possibility...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 443–449.
Published: 01 December 2020
... serve as a symbol on your forehead; inscribe them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. (Deuteronomy 6:4–9, trans. Jewish Publication Society, modified) 1. Harari, Sapiens , 31–36 . 2. Asad, Genealogies , 64 . 3. Asad, Secular Translations , 144 . 4...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (2): 275–309.
Published: 01 August 2022
... around progressive and “secular” values. Then there is the more critical and still valuable Marxist tradition that remains critical of nationalism and stresses that postindependence India was marked by the dominance of a subcontinental elite, a national class formation. What these two progressivisms...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 85–105.
Published: 01 April 2019
... rules India. How do universities figure in this project? An ideologue of contemporary Hindutva wrote recently: “Those who considered the RSS the enemy of ‘secularism and nationalism’ no longer hold state power. However, they still hold the dominant position in academia.” 2 This is the simple...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (2): 337–369.
Published: 01 August 2022
... been apprehended keep anticolonialism out of sight; in this landscape, anticolonialism is siphoned off to other fields. Instead, these lenses and inheritances make al-Afghānī a conspiracist of esotericism, secularism, and various plots, a thinker who only alleges belief in Islam in front of Muslims...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 565–576.
Published: 01 December 2021
... and its values, as well as debates between Orthodox, secular, liberal, and right-wing currents. However, this situation began to change with the occupation of the remaining Palestinian territories in 1967, which instigated the transformation of the Zionist state's essential question. If the fundamental...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (2): 304–323.
Published: 01 August 2023
..., grounded in the secular teleology of homogenous and empty time, dislocates the revolution from the losses of earlier political and theological paradigms and the violence borne of these specific losses. Once dehistoricized in this way, the revolution is narrated as an eternal struggle between the forces...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 183–201.
Published: 01 April 2022
... infrastructure of the current dominant systems, including their universal constructs and objectifying relations, their anthropocentrism, secularism, and Eurocentrism, and their colonialist hierarchical classifications in terms of race, gender, and sexuality. Let us consider the pluriversity as a form...
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