Search Results for critique of religion

...Mohamad Amer Meziane Abstract This essay examines the effects of the critique of religion on the critique of capital and how the former confines the latter. It asks: What remains of the concepts of alienation or fetishism if they all stem from an anthropology of religion that seems to be criticized...

...Ananda Abeysekara Abstract Critiques of the concept of “Protestant Buddhism” claim to tell a different story about the relation between religion and modernity (“Protestantism”) in South Asia. They seek to reconstruct the temporal relation between the past and the present, contesting postcolonial...

... mysticism, anthropological critiques of the secular, work in Black studies, critiques of the subject, and François Laruelle’s non-philosophical thought. The result links immanence more intimately with dispossession than with the subject’s self-possession—and entwines it with the undercommons, as the atopic...

... of Hegel’s social philosophy reminds us that “the criticism of religion is the prerequisite of all criticism.” We can see this critique primarily as a form of negation, that is, the disavowal of the transcendent and sacred. But Marx employs a more speculative critique that sees the actual, if inverted...

... , 141–64, and in Asad, Genealogies of Religion , 171–99. 34. Anidjar, “The Violence of Violence,” 439. 35. Asad, “Thinking about Tradition,” 212–13. 36. Koselleck , Critique and Crisis . 37. Asad, “Thinking about Tradition,” 213. 38. Asad , “Responses,” 207...

... religions,” to Mahmood’s insistence that discourses of secularism do not simply stipulate religion’s proper location but its defi nition and meanings.8 But the four critiques I have identifi ed here open a reengagement with Marx’s thinking about the religiosity of capi- talism, a reengagement...

...Philip Balboni Abstract This essay works to clarify Edward Said’s writings on religion, criticism, and the secular, arguing that this clarification has serious implications not only for Said’s project of “secular criticism” but also for understanding the workings of what he called the “critical...

... Abeysekara Ananda . “ Religious Studies’ Mishandling of Origin and Change: Time, Tradition, and Form of Life in Buddhism .” Cultural Critique 98 , no. 1 ( 2018 ): 22 – 71 . Abeysekara Ananda . “ The Un-translatability of Religion, the Un-translatability of Life: Talal Asad’s Thought...

... the framework of the critique of religion and superstition in his early Theological-Political Treatise, which is guided by a demasking critique of supposed interpretive authori- ties, Spinoza arrives at a connection between epistemic mistakes and affective needs. According...

.../Summer 2001 202 REVIEW ESSAY wink and a nod the famous critique of politics found in The German Ideology, that all struggles within the State . . . are merely the illu- sory forms in which the real struggles of the different classes are fought out among one...

.... And it remains, perhaps we should admit, a rather good joke — if only insofar as it illustrates with a Qui Parle Vol. 12, No. 2 Spring/Summer 2001 202 REVIEW ESSAY wink and a nod the famous critique of politics found in The German Ideology, that all struggles within the State...

... The Passions and the Interests , which showed how the notion of self-interest—so decried by communitarian critiques—had been a moral response to the war of religions, thus presenting capitalism as a new theory of the social in search of a new moral order. I was also interested in the scholarship on Adam Smith...

... critique of abstraction in light of tashkīk , systematic ambiguity or modulation. The essay argues that Ṣadrā’s influence can make generative contributions to Deleuzean thought in terms of process realism, tashkīk as disjunctive synthesis, immanent causality, singularity, and an optimistic, world-oriented...

... this issue seeks to uncover, deconstruct, and inquire into. Belief has long been accorded an essential place within conceptions and definitions of “religion”: as Donald Lopez puts it, for Aquinas, “to believe ( credere ) is to believe in what is true,” transcendent, and thus beyond the scrutiny and critique...

... To speak of the secular is to speak of the world. Or, more precisely, it is to speak of the age of the world, which for Christianity marked a time between the Christ’s advent and return, and which for the secular modern came to mark a time in which “religion” would be superseded. However one goes...

..., solidaristic, and palingenetic national- ism and the fatalistic belief that all societies are yet fated to follow the life cycles of organisms; an alternative system of valuation of things in terms of their specifi c vitality rather than their abstract monetary value; and a veiled theological critique...

... Philosophy of Right”: Dussel: The Liberatory Event in Paul of Tarsus 161 The critique of religion leads to the doctrine of the human being as the supreme essence for the human being, and consequently to the categorical imperative to undermine all relations in which...

... in The Elementary Forms of Reli- gious Life (1915), emphasizing that sacred things were set apart in such a way that they became the center of the social whole.1 For Durkheim, religion began when social groups performed rituals as a way of binding together a community; these actions produced a sense...

... misogynist and patriarchal of all religions and that the liberation of its women is a necessary step in the reform of this tradition. What makes this convergence all the more disturbing is that it comes almost twenty years after post- colonial scholars articulated a robust critique of the Orientalist...

..., to a reconsideration of the sacralizing force of capital with and beyond Marx, to a critique of a form of state sovereignty pred- icated on the erasure of subjects deemed “threats” to the social body. Situating these pieces within the broader context of relevant approaches in the fi eld of political...