...SherAli Tareen; Arvind-Pal S. Mandair; Nermeen Mouftah; John Modern This introductory essay provides an overview of the central themes and interventions marking Saba Mahmood’s Religious Difference in a Secular Age while also briefly describing the key nodes of analysis that frame the three...

...Reza Alijani The issues of religion and secularization are among the most pressing concerns in Iran today. Religion has historically played different roles and has been present at different levels within the society. Followers of different religions either have chosen total submission based...

...Nermeen Mouftah In Religious Difference in a Secular Age (2016), Saba Mahmood calls into question one of secularism’s greatest boasts—that it makes possible pluralistic societies that protect the rights of religious minorities. Rather than bolstering neutrality toward religion, she demonstrates how...

...Arvind-Pal S. Mandair This article responds to Saba Mahmood’s Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report (2016). It highlights those aspects of the book that intersect with intellectual work that actively experiments with alternative ways of conceptualizing difference in order...

... political consequences. But, is it the case that the principle is as exclusive of the secular as it appears? In this article, the author argues that Christian-Muslim coexistence is a distinctively Lebanese articulation of a secular sensibility, one that privileges certain ways of being Muslim or Christian...

...Mayanthi Fernando Abstract If secularity ushered in the notion of humans as buffered subjects immune to nonhuman agents, recent attempts to recognize the agency of nonhumans and to see humans as always in relation to nonhumans—the natureculture turn—may be understood as both a posthumanist...

...Meir Hatina Abstract This article sheds light on a neglected episode in the scholarship on Egypt's intellectual life in the interwar period, as well as on the Arab renaissance (Nahda) and its intensive preoccupation with the triangle of religion, science, and secularism. The discussion focuses...

...Rajeev Bhargava © 1994: South Asia Bulletin 1994 South Asia Bulletin, Vol XIV No. 1 (1994) How Not to Defend Secularism Rajeev B hargava The demolition of the Babri Masjid was a frontal spite separation, the two relate to each other. In attack on the principles...

... as toEast treasures, lands, confi the outside expansion seeking powers great and caesars, Emperors, Nassar R. Jamal United States, Europe, and Israel in the Middle East: The Role ofthe Secularism and Revivalism Religious...

...Aparna Dharwadker A Critical Stage: The Role of Secular Alternative Theatre in Pakistan Fawzia Afzal-Khan Calcutta: Seagull, 2005 x + 143 pp., Rs 425 (cloth) Duke University Press 2006...

...Ali Mirsepassi Duke University Press 2006 Religious Intellectuals and Western Critiques of Secular Modernity Ali Mirsepassi n the following discussion I offer...

...Sinem Gürbey In comparative and theoretical discussions, Turkey—where secularism is imposed from above as one of the irrevocable founding principles of the constitution—is criticized for being religiously hostile, aiming to repress religion in the public sphere in a coercive manner. This view...

... women and oblige them to sport turbans. Thus it is presumed that the bulk of the people in Turkey long for a state based on Islam. This article takes up the question of whether indeed a great majority of the people in Turkey are inclined toward a state based on Islam, for they oppose the secular...

...Yasuyuki Matsunaga This article examines the secularization thesis of Iran's faqih -headed revolutionary Islamic state, as put forward by Sa'id Hajjarian (1954–), against the institutional and political developments in the post-Khomeini period. His thesis posited that the religious state...

...C. S. Adcock Proponents of cow protection in colonial north India around the turn of the twentieth century made abundant use of “economic” arguments for a legislative ban on cow slaughter. Drawing on recent critical reflections on secular history, this essay explores what it might mean to take...

... m: Introduction: Secularism and Islamism: Iran and Beyond lami s Is Saeed Rahnema and Haideh...

... that such humility is probably even rarer among nonreligious analytic ethicists than it is among religious ethicists. Duke University Press 2011 Secularism, Ethics, Philosophy: A Case for Epistemic Humility Susan...

...Ramin Jahanbegloo Secularism, for many of us, is not a terra incognita, and yet it is certainly an improperly defined and unexplained concept. For more than 150 years, intellectuals, politicians, and theologians have used secular and secularism in a rather ambiguous way. These terms therefore need...

...Saeed Rahnema For nearly a century and a half, Iranian intellectuals' demands for secularism and democracy have remained unfulfilled. Needless to say, the establishment of a religious state has further exacerbated the formidable challenges in achieving their goals. Nonetheless, amid the current...

... could a radically traditionalist religious establishment, which was normally marked by modern revolutionaries as reactionary, merge with the most radical revolutionary groups and views? What are the universal results of such a “chemical” composition for both the otherworldly religionism and secular...