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... conducted in several of Turkey's major urban centers. The figure of the secularist crowd provides an image of secularism grounded not in the coercive apparatuses of the military and the modernizing bureaucracy but in an assertion of populism. This article explores the tentative formation of a secular...

...Stathis Gourgouris Duke University Press 2008 Antisecularist Failures: A Counterresponse to Saba Mahmood Stathis Gourgouris I guess it is to be expected that in today’s fashionable anti- secularist...

..., the demand by female students to be allowed to attend public schools with a headscarf has become the most debated and divisive issue in Turkey’s public debate between secularists and Islamists. For a detailed discussion on this dispute see Olson Emelie...

... as theoretically and politically disabling. Romanticism and Secularism I begin by considering two recent books. The first is William Connolly’s Why I Am Not a Secularist; the second is Paul Hamilton’s Metaromanticism.2...

... 1. Carl Schmitt, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty, trans. George Schwab (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985), 36. 438 teleology by secularists of all kinds, secularization remains unfinished. This is its...

... symbols of distinction in a non- Western context of modernity. And Islamists are not insensitive to acquiring such cultural capital. In fact, though they are in an oppositional political struggle with the modern secularists, they often mirror...

...: unlike some of his oil-barren neighbors, he is not known to be cor- rupt; he is a secularist and not an Islamic fundamentalist; he has sought to modernize Iraqi society for both men and women; he has begun to provide a renewed identity for the Arab world; and he has sought a more equitable...

...: unlike some of his oil-barren neighbors, he is not known to be cor- rupt; he is a secularist and not an Islamic fundamentalist; he has sought to modernize Iraqi society for both men and women; he has begun to provide a renewed identity for the Arab world; and he has sought a more equitable...

..., secrecy, and political tactics of the grassroots-based MB engender the mistrust of many political forces, including some Islamists. At the same time, the secularist-Islamist polarization hinders the possibility of All translations are the author’s. Public Culture 19:1  doi 10.1215/08992363...

....” Journal of Asian Studies 464 ( November ). Nandy , Ashish 1985 . “An Anti-Secularist Manifesto.” Seminar 314 . Nandy , Ashish 1987 . Traditions, Tyranny and Utopia . Delhi Oxford University Press. Nehru , Jawaharlal 1946 . The Discovery of India . New York John Day...

... George Jacob Holyoake (1896) intended to capture when he coined the term secularists in 1851: rational empiricism and a this-worldly focus. Secularism in this sense is a label for individual beliefs that typically include rationalism, empiricism, naturalism, and the view that science is the best way...

... of their big night for their service as the state’s cannon fodder. But now here on a larger scale was the urban periphery taking over the central public spaces that were once hubs for social drinking, for secularists and European tourists and gender and sexual minorities, not just for one big tolerated night...

..., the latter a key demand that is strenuously opposed by the Egyptian business class (the Islamists and the secularists among them), which supported Mubarak and which feigned changing sides after his overthrow. With the restoration of the Mubarakist bourgeoisie to power after the overthrow of Mursi, Sawires...

..., and allusive style of Indonesian not readily accessible to the major­ ity even of the nation’s literate population. Like virtually all leading periodicals of the time, the magazine was implicitly secularist in tone (cf. Goenawan n.d...

... the Hindu parties claim was built over a temple marking the birthplace of Rama. While the secularists were painstakingly attempting to prove historically the falseness of this “communal” allegation, L. K. Advani, a leader of the BJP, issued a state- ment asserting that historical truth...

...” centers precisely around these two principles of liberal secularism. He argues that the root of the conflict between “value evangelicals” and “legal secularists” lies in the fact that the former want to use state funding for religious projects, and the latter...

... and accoutrements of modernity. According to Göle, it is precisely the ambivalent quality of a figure simultaneously so modern and yet Muslim that terrified the secularists. In Göle’s account, what is at stake here is the struggle between two imaginaries, the secular and the Islamic, to define the contours...

... to various parts of the spectrum, including secularists, [the] religious, Christians, Muslims, liberals, socialists, rich, poor, men, women, and so on. What happened in early 2011 wasn’t simple. No revolution of that kind can be straightforwardly predicted or explained. Many discrete events crystallized...

... of the shah also sought to overthrow his authoritarian secularist settlement. This constituency is catalyzing today’s movement. In the lead-up to 1979, revolution- aries of different religiopolitical persuasions — secular, religious, or other — all...

...: the Gandhian gesture of naming the Hindu untouchable harijan, translatable as “god’s child” and, in the Mahatma’s own words, “a man of god.”1 Anticolonial thought was never entirely given to secularist enchantments, so that this gesture of consecrating, and, by some angry accounts, of distancing...