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Religious Minorities and the Secular State: Reflections on an Indian Impasse

Partha Chatterjee
Public Culture (1995) 8 (1): 11–39.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8-1-11
Published: 01 January 1995
...Partha Chatterjee Copyright © 1995 by The University of Chicago 1995 Religious Minorities and the Secular State: Reflections on an Indian Impasse Partha Chatterjee There has...
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Satanic or Angelic? The Politics of Religious and Literary Inspiration

Peter van der Veer
Public Culture (1989) 2 (1): 100–105.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2-1-100
Published: 01 January 1989
...? The Politics of Religious and Literary Inspiration Peter van der Veer Department of Anthropology University of Utrecht The publication of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses is clearly a major political-literary event. In India, it was banned by the Finance Minis- ter; in Iran, the Guide...
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Religious Mobilizations

Charles Taylor
Public Culture (2006) 18 (2): 281–300.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2006-004
Published: 01 May 2006
...Charles Taylor Duke University Press 2006 S E C U L A R I S M : G E N E A L O G I E S A N D P O L I T I C S Religious Mobilizations Charles Taylor For those who see secularism as part of modernity...
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Sense Experiences: Religious Affairs and the Palpability of State Power

Denise Gill
Public Culture (2021) 33 (3 (95)): 393–415.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9262891
Published: 01 September 2021
..., transport, and prepare the bodies of the deceased for burial at no charge. Yet while appearing as a public good, these state services are far from equitable, as they violently subjugate and sharply exclude religious, ethnic, and sexual minorities (see especially Zengin 2019 and 2020 ). I conducted...
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Secularism and Secular People

Joseph Blankholm
Public Culture (2018) 30 (2): 245–268.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-4310874
Published: 01 May 2018
... refuses to identify as religious, a second wants to be protected as a religious minority, and a third wants to be analogized to religion without actually being called religious . Relying on extensive fieldwork among these and other nonbeliever organizations, this article contextualizes each lawsuit...
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Atmospheric Citizenship: Sonic Movement and Public Religion in Shi‘i Mumbai

Patrick Eisenlohr
Public Culture (2021) 33 (3 (95)): 371–392.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9262877
Published: 01 September 2021
...Patrick Eisenlohr Abstract In Mumbai the sonic dimensions of place‐making and religious life are deeply connected to the right to the city. For Twelver Shi‘i Muslims, who are marginal to both the city and the nation, public religious rituals and processions have long played very important roles...
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The Crystal Cathedral: Architecture for Mediated Congregation

Erica Robles-Anderson
Public Culture (2012) 24 (3 68): 577–599.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1630672
Published: 01 September 2012
...Erica Robles-Anderson Within the past half century a style of worship known as “megachurch” has radically transformed the religious landscape. Characterized by spectacular largesse, megachurches reimagine the material culture of Christianity by blending audio, visual, and communications...
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Buying into the Dream: The Religion of Racial Capitalism in Coca-Cola’s World

Lucia Hulsether
Public Culture (2018) 30 (3): 483–508.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-6912151
Published: 01 September 2018
.... Neoliberal multiculturalism is made through its dynamic religious elements; the Christian secular is a primary technology for revising and reproducing race. The NCCHR is a staging ground for the religious history of racial capitalism, incarnate not only in the parochial past it attempts to vanquish but also...
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A Fantastic Church? Literature, Politics, and the Afterlives of Afro-Protestantism

Josef Sorett
Public Culture (2017) 29 (1 (81)): 17–26.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3644361
Published: 01 January 2017
... and as a break from the “Black Church,” specifically, black literature and protest politics in the present moment are not as far removed from the traditions of Afro-Protestantism as they are thought to be. Recognizing the degree to which racial and religious discourses are mutually constitutive, this essay calls...
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The Revival of Reinhold Niebuhr: A Foreign Policy Fable

Robert B. Horwitz
Public Culture (2016) 28 (1 (78)): 113–138.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3325040
Published: 01 January 2016
...Robert B. Horwitz Reinhold Niebuhr, the liberal Protestant theologian, occupied a prominent position in American public life during the middle decades of the twentieth century. A pillar of the post – World War II establishment, Niebuhr lent religious legitimation to American foreign policy during...
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Caution, Religion! Iconoclasm, Secularism, and Ways of Seeing in Post-Soviet Art Wars

Anya Bernstein
Public Culture (2014) 26 (3 (74)): 419–448.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2683621
Published: 01 September 2014
...Anya Bernstein This article looks at recent Russian lawsuits accusing artists and curators of “inciting religious hatred.” It seeks to explain the reasons behind these controversies by considering the respective scopic regimes informing several exhibits and subsequent trials from 1998 to 2010. One...
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A Divided Conscience: The Lost Convictions of Human Rights

Tobias Kelly
Public Culture (2018) 30 (3): 367–392.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-6912091
Published: 01 September 2018
... often become the domain of the religious right. The article asks how this has happened, and whether human rights—widely accused of a retreat into technicalities at the expense of intense conviction—has lost anything along the way. In doing so, the article treats conscience as a historically embedded...
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State Sovereignty and the Politics of Indifference

Mayanthi L. Fernando
Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 261–273.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7286813
Published: 01 May 2019
... of difference and claim instead their right to indifference. Some call for indifference from the state, others call for indifference to the state. The author asks: Is there a way to achieve religious equality without addressing the state? Or might indifference entail communal withdrawal, abandoning the ideal...
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Susanne K. Langer, Philosophy in a New Key (1942)

Joel Isaac
Public Culture (2020) 32 (2 (91)): 355–361.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8090117
Published: 01 May 2020
...Joel Isaac Susanne Langer’s Philosophy in a New Key (1942) is the most famous book you’ve never heard of. It has had a remarkable career: a big seller on the mass paperback market of the post–World War II decades; a key text in musicology, aesthetics, religious studies, and anthropology; a founding...
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Every Turk Is Born a Soldier

Noah Arjomand
Public Culture (2017) 29 (3 (83)): 418–432.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3869524
Published: 01 September 2017
..., not so much out of strict religious or ideological convictions, but because he offers them a story and a path to realize an ideal of citizenship and manhood, in contrast to a cosmopolitanism that devalues them. This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant...
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Jews, Jesus, and the Problem of Postcolonial French Identity

Kimberly A. Arkin
Public Culture (2017) 29 (3 (83)): 457–480.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3869548
Published: 01 September 2017
... for what it suggested about anti-Semitism, it may ultimately have been most problematic for what it implied about “Frenchness.” This article argues that the campaign’s polysemy and ambiguity destabilized religious and national differences presumed to be self-evident in contemporary France. In doing so...
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Subtitling Islam: Translation, Mediation, Critique

Yasmin Moll
Public Culture (2017) 29 (2 (82)): 333–361.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3749093
Published: 01 May 2017
... Western stereotypes about Muslims, on the one hand, and, on the other, to transmit as “preachers by proxy” correct and relevant religious knowledge to viewers when, at times, the Arab preachers they subtitle fail to do so. Translators feel authorized to contest through subtitles both external...
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Secularism, Hermeneutics, and Empire: The Politics of Islamic Reformation

Saba Mahmood
Public Culture (2006) 18 (2): 323–347.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2006-006
Published: 01 May 2006
... of the ascendance of global religious politics, urgent calls for the reinstatement of secularism have reached a crescendo that cannot be ignored. The most obvious target of these strident calls is Islam, particularly those practices and discourses within Islam that are suspected of fostering funda- mentalism...
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Secular Imperatives?

Saba Mahmood
Public Culture (2008) 20 (3): 461–465.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2008-006
Published: 01 September 2008
... “Is Critique Secu- lar?” opened up to reflection and that I alluded to in my earlier riposte. Calls for the embrace (or, for that matter, the rejection) of secularism are often premised on a putative opposition between secular and religious worldviews, wherein each is defined as a necessary and stable...
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Is Critique Secular? A Symposium at UC Berkeley

Saba Mahmood
Public Culture (2008) 20 (3): 447–452.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2008-004
Published: 01 September 2008
... difficult. It has to do with the shrill polemic that attends current discussions about religion and, by implication, secularism. The events of the past decade (including 9/11, the subsequent war on terror, and the rise of religious politics...
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