...Stathis Gourgouris Against simple antisecularist claims that secularism is to be equated with Western rationalism or with Christianity, or with colonialism tout court, I argue that an essential task of secular criticism (according to Edward Said's initial conception) is to conduct a double...

...Saba Mahmood This short essay calls for an examination of the assumption that critique is necessarily secular and of the necessary disciplines of subjectivity and practices of rumination and interpretation entailed in this assumption. Duke University Press 2008 Is Critique...

...Saba Mahmood Duke University Press 2008 Secular Imperatives? Saba Mahmood I hesitated to respond to Stathis Gourgouris’s riposte because of its dramatic and consistent misreading of my argument in “Secularism...

...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...

...Joseph Blankholm This article bridges the gap between the study of religion-making secularism and the study of secular people by analyzing three recent lawsuits filed by secular activists in the United States. Each suit asks the courts to understand nonbelievers in a different way: one group...

...Colin Jager Duke University Press 2006 After the Secular: The Subject of Romanticism Colin Jager Secularism has garnered little sustained attention from students of romanticism. In large part, this is because...

...Neeladri Bhattacharya Duke University Press 2008 Predicaments of Secular Histories Neeladri Bhattacharya The professional history writing that developed in India in the early decades after independence was powerfully shaped...

...Kabir Tambar In much of the Muslim world, secularization has proceeded through the modernizing mechanisms of the region's various states. By contrast, social movements committed to the (re)introduction of religion into public and political life have frequently functioned through appeals...

.... Secular Sublime: Edward Said at the Israel Museum Kaylin Goldstein I n 1998, on the occasion of the state of Israel’s fi ftieth anniversary, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem presented a major exhibit on Orientalism...

...Saba Mahmood Duke University Press 2006 Secularism, Hermeneutics, and Empire: The Politics of Islamic Reformation Saba Mahmood Since the events of September 11, 2001, against the backdrop of two decades...

...Judith Surkis This essay situates a recent French marriage annulment scandal in the context of debates about Islam, gender, and immigration; the relationship between the secularism of French law and Catholic marriage law; and the history of Muslim law under French colonial rule. Copyright 2010...

... focused on what were described as deep “rifts” in contemporary Russian society: between secular and religious communities, between contemporary artists and the Orthodox Church, and between rationality and “obscurantism.” Commentators warned about the return of authoritarianism to Russia, calling attention...

... , and the National September 11 Memorial, I propose that in a truly secular world salvation would turn into a downward movement, as opposed to the rapture’s elevation of Christian eschatology. The author concludes that reversed rapture images exemplify how transcendence is re-created and reimagined in a world...

... places such corporate pedagogies of the postracial human within a longer history of Christian mission. It is written as a proof for why cultural critics’ locutions of religion and the secular require greater precision, especially as they interpret regimes of race within contemporary capitalism...

...Webb Keane A comparison of two challenges to freedom of the press, in Indonesia and Denmark, reveals some of the linkages among semiotic ideologies, secularism, and a moral narrative of modernity. By analyzing conflicts between semiotic ideologies, the article shows how actual journalistic...

... of equality and other conventional secular-liberal politics? The claims that Muslim French make to France, and the grounding of those claims in the paradigm of citizenship, were strikingly displayed during a December 2003 demonstration against the then-proposed law banning headscarves in public schools...

...Elizabeth Shakman Hurd The Iranian oppositional movement led by Mir Hussein Moussavi offers a glimpse of a third path that departs from a rigid dichotomy between secularism and political Islam and leads toward alternative religiopolitical possibilities not only for Iran but for other countries...

... perspective an act of secular criticism that calls for “detranscendental- izing the secular” would be unfathomable — not merely contrarian or inadvis- able but inconceivable, unaccountable. I did underestimate, however, just how eagerly such a perspective would ban the notion that a critique...

... societies. New faces of Muslim actors using both secular and religious idiom are appearing in public life; the terms of public debate are being transformed by the eruption of religious issues; Islamic films and novels are becoming popular subjects of cul- tural criticism; new spaces, markets, and media...

... the 1980 military coup, roundtables, panels, and talk shows have been a popular medium for intellectuals, political actors, and citizens debating on the issues of identity, secularism, ethnicity, and democracy. In other words, the pub...