Skip Nav Destination
Close Modal
/10.1215_08992363-2683621/2/s_419_Fig1.jpeg?Expires=1698447350&Signature=wwgfOnfRuI3zPZwiOzswDHW6aic9u8HJQYoq0ujaF7ZY5t6PHrqF~dJdU96dSnq1~IxEOFqaknEEv0Td6yFpRFuZoHXIxqoQnzQzY-3QQP3Q24SQty5IJt8yqenOCeDIcNTUT7OOE5J1gEYjMEZv4yRJbIGGuYu5rctVMWIUqOTEHDmChQbqdTAE0Uvce0ea~xfMlH218n9R9qWPQAIZjmwZ2lmlfMOmJAdcw8XrCMs3dlj8Vl1txSifgEId5KaHET~pb7E8fdBfXxQw0sHVZL3FPQJXQQLwtEnHADiS7Spuzqo4sf~fWEzkyZ0Py0HgsrlPxc~Td77YINsla-OjYw__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIE5G5CRDK6RD3PGA)
/10.1215_08992363-2683621/2/s_419_Fig2.jpeg?Expires=1698447350&Signature=eCUoNzK5bMpwqgMMZ04QozCrG2QypZ1Rq~lv9a3Zxs1Yw~3yExbe1G70Bt310Xien10ZYSG5~U9ZmiagQNE6geuY4tBrUSsK5HAfy-hUiPqJZD67-MUfCtH5dWErm60Ns0-rRUR6VT3d7XEGxcWsqPg4OTdEvx4IZn25jpl29dMme2GMazoA9QtoebKVbZvgu9E3PuyliaCyI7hBVtpaG5zbj8G85c67HddP1qZfaO5IKjj3-yW2vZ7jGBwZ-lLNcVxduv8ip4Y-li2yospiKHElk1slwlyiE0zEMNdQQtHyVNagbh1rcDXZ64rfDjSlfOaNExMwV8HLvTYTyM9U7Q__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIE5G5CRDK6RD3PGA)
/10.1215_08992363-2683621/2/s_419_Fig3.jpeg?Expires=1698447350&Signature=v6FXkFkRWgXiz7Dv2iLb5Jr7fKAE4mPJg0Jdc4R8uXByqJWwLc-RrdkXH0hM6I759fnHjMqrC9681PhHWl6wO6CDpBBTLUu5CeW0WF-6GsjmsT4B1820YFhi9EJCIrOEnyJjbzBXd0SIdDu-wpYTOBH8fFKw14gbHxHBT3tBq~4b6IaAIIiE7hYzp8r2PFqCoufW4ONKr44oZFIB~8~0GkaHnsjfqH4SE6T6fpL2O3xvRIzOjogkuAvuSecFSAo3vIVpcNm3UZ7ihfwzn5L-wjON0ba0UHBD0HcfV5lf-0slgZ01MH5y9tPz~n~JOPU-Oq9qnQyIrJ55gXa650ehiQ__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIE5G5CRDK6RD3PGA)
1-20 of 310 Search Results for
study of religion
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
1
Journal Article
Public Culture (2018) 30 (2): 245–268.
Published: 01 May 2018
...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...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2020) 32 (2 (91)): 385–396.
Published: 01 May 2020
... have been the basis of his lifelong study of Goethe, who remained an inspiration throughout his life. Already fluent in Romanian, French, and German, in high school he started to read the works of “world literature,” and the philosophies and religions that inspired them. In his late teens, he learned...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2010) 22 (1): 127–147.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Ashis Nandy This story can be read as a case study of a heartless killer sentenced to life imprisonment not for killing Muslims but for killing Gandhi because of his bias for the Muslims. Had Madanlal Pahwa not been part of the conspiracy, he would have gone scot-free. Yet that impunity...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2010) 22 (1): 215–216.
Published: 01 January 2010
... for the
Study of Religion and in the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at
the University of Toronto. He is the author of City of God: Christian Citizenship
in Postwar Guatemala and a coeditor of Genocide: Truth, Memory, and Repre...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2008) 20 (3): 447–452.
Published: 01 September 2008
... the superiority of a secular worldview, they hardly constitute
a tenable analysis in light of all the recent work on the modern emergence of the
categories of secularism and religion.
But I think that the feel-good part of the secular story cannot be belittled.
It should in fact be studied in all...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1993) 6 (1): 77–82.
Published: 01 January 1993
...).
6. See my critique of these clichds in van der Veer (1987).
7. Spivak (1989).
a2 Peter van der Veer is professor of Comparative Religion and director of the Center
Public Culture for the Comparative Study of Religion and Society at the University of Amster...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2004) 16 (2): 209–238.
Published: 01 May 2004
.... 2001 . In media res: Global religion,public sphere, and the task of contemporary comparative religious studies. In Religion and media , edited by Hent De Vries and Samuel Weber. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. Duara, Prasenjit. 1995 . Rescuing history from the nation: Questioning...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2009) 21 (1): 77–100.
Published: 01 January 2009
.... As a result,
according to Asad, studies of religion should not define religion and then extract
20. See Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity (Stanford, Calif.:
Stanford University Press, 2003); Saba Mahmood...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2010) 22 (1): 67–88.
Published: 01 January 2010
... responses to their growing threat. More immediate to Gustavo’s
I presented versions of this essay at Columbia University’s Department of Anthropology and
Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race and at the University of Toronto’s Department and Centre
for the Study of Religion and Centre...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 221–237.
Published: 01 May 2015
... sciences, so as to create a suspicion about the place of things in the study of religion. The contributors to this collection make an excellent case for showing that the most fruitful way to think about religion is as a space of anxiety and indeterminacy about the relationship between the visible...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2014) 26 (3 (74)): 419–448.
Published: 01 September 2014
...,” where religion was to be superseded by science and rationality. The goal of Soviet secularization, however, went beyond the privatization of religion or the functional substitution of religious with secular forms. Instead, as Sonja Luehrmann (2011 : 6 – 7) argues in her insightful study of Soviet...
FIGURES
| View All (9)
Journal Article
Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 259–279.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Irfan Ahmad Anthropologist Talal Asad, interviewed by Irfan Ahmad, talks about his conceptual engagement with the outcomes of religion, politics, and the past and his work to problematize a “seamless web” view of history’s unfolding. IA: Blumenberg (1983) critiqued Schmitt’s position, also...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2020) 32 (2 (91)): 423–430.
Published: 01 May 2020
.... References Eagleton Terry . 1976 . “ Criticism and Politics: The Work of Raymond Williams .” New Left Review , no. 95 : 3 – 23 . Field Clive D. 2017 . Secularization in the Long 1960s: Numerating Religion in Britain . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Gallagher Catherine...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2006) 18 (2): 301–321.
Published: 01 May 2006
... essence that is valid across time, space, and culture. Thus in the nineteenth
century essentialized religion entered the domains of disciplinary knowledge,
particularly anthropology and religious studies.21
On Religion (1799), the first...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1995) 8 (1): 11–39.
Published: 01 January 1995
... and Religion, 326.
14. The two most comprehensive studies on the subject of the secular state in India make this
point: V. P. Luthera in me Concept ofthe Secular State and Mia (Calcutta: Oxford University
Press, 1964) concludes that India should...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2006) 18 (2): 323–347.
Published: 01 May 2006
... can then be read for its symbolic significance. In
the words of an influential anthropologist, “religion is a system of symbols” that
46. Hasan Hanafi, “The Relevance of the Islamic Alternative in Egypt,” Arab Studies Quarterly...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2019) 31 (1): 45–67.
Published: 01 January 2019
... formulation, a “white analytics” was advanced that denied the centrality of what he calls the “black analytics” crucial for a complete understanding of both historical and contemporary French conflicts around race and religion ( Hesse 2014 ). “Context,” I am suggesting, was in this case a euphemism for racial...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2000) 12 (2): 477–498.
Published: 01 May 2000
... and
Weller, Unruly Gods.
10. See P. Steven Sangren, “Anthropology and Identity Politics in Taiwan: The Relevance of
Local Religion” (paper presented at the Taiwan Studies Workshop, Fairbank Center for East Asian
Research, Harvard University...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2017) 29 (2 (82)): 333–361.
Published: 01 May 2017
... was predicated on making the religion intelligible to those yet to embrace it. The moral imperativeness of such intelligibility hinges on positioning the assumption of potential commensurability within the given resources of the Islamic tradition, namely, the Qur’an and the prophetic example. The domestication...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2018) 30 (3): 367–392.
Published: 01 September 2018
... . Toronto : University of Toronto Press . Arendt Hannah . 1972 . Crisis in the Republic . New York : Harcourt . Asad Talal . 1993 . Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press . Asad Talal...
1
