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... consciousness” within a “purely secular view of reality.” The essay holds that there are not one but two concepts of the religious operative in Said’s work and maintains that most commentators on Said have ignored the second concept and have therefore misconstrued secular criticism’s relationship to what...

... conceptions of history, time, and religious practice. This story of temporality is staked on the question of “influence,” which has a genealogy that includes not just colonial, missionary, liberal politics but also contemporary legal-political questions about foreign influence on democracy and sovereignty...

... approach. Ṣadrā’s work allows us to rethink the boundary between philosophy and theology, and the essay proposes means to de-transcendentalize religious philosophy, if necessary. 30. Ṣadrā, Wisdom of the Throne , quoted in Morris, Wisdom of the Throne , pt. 1, chap. 1, §2, 98. 31. They drew...

...- Western states. Against the presumption that secu- larization is an inexorable and progressive tendency in capitalist orders generally, and liberal democracies in particular, proudly secular Euro-Atlantic societies are “outing” their own religious predicates as they defend...

... establishes society both as an object of science and as a site of secular emancipation. It makes possible a series of analogies between the social and the religious as well as between the commodity and the fetish. This essay examines the effects of the anthropology of religion on the critique of capital...

... religions,” whose transnational appeal is attributed to their capacity for transcendental—and therefore universal—truths. Aisha M. Beliso–De Jesús’s Electric Santería counters these assumptions by insisting that Santería’s transnational worlds enrich scholarly understandings of religious practice...

... drug- and “prostitute-riddled past.”3 As an Anglo- American category, moral turpitude enfolds residual religious ideas about the body, character, and conduct with secular understandings of sex, race, and citizen- ship. At the borders of these categories, as well...

..., but the point to emphasize, again, is that the entire episode has been in effect pre- scripted by the father’s initial command not to cross the line. Religious discourse provides some of the oldest expressions of this movement of separation, injunction, and transgression: in Genesis...

... and with globalization more broadly: the evidence surrounds us perhaps no more so than in the present belief in the ubiquity of networks. We must ask, then: What is obscured when scholarly conversations and definitions are delineated only by belief ? What is lost, for example, in shorthand references to religious...

.... Anidjar: Muslim Jews 3 Walter Benjamin says as much in an otherwise isolated and puz- zling comment, which he makes in “The Task of the Translator” and whereby the movement of translation—the growth and devel- opment of language—is brought into relation with religious growth. Having explained...

..., there is no easy answer. The question of translatability is, as Asad writes, “always a matter of what can be translated and how” (8). To elucidate his claims, Asad zeroes in on Jürgen Habermas’s proposition that religious discourse, assumed to be particular and obscure, be included within a public sphere “so...

... things posed as transcendent, it would refuse the collusive polemics perpetually played between the secular metaphysics of modernity and the theological logics that position themselves (and are positioned) as its enemy. Uncovering affirmations of such immanence in sites and archives deemed religious...

... an intervention in the anthropology of Islam, yet it has also become important across a number of fields (anthropology, religious studies, postcolonial studies, critical theory) concerned with eth- ics and religion in modernity. It was first elaborated in the paper below, written in 1986...

... of History” instead of making history the subject of the force of their uprising ( fi , 4). Further, the narrative that bifurcates secular and religious politics simplifies our conception of global politics. As argued by Ghamari-Tabrizi, this has led to narratives of the Iranian Revolution...

...John Brenkman Copyright © 2013 Qui Parle 2013 “ . . . wrestling with (my God!) my God” Modernism, Nihilism, and Belief john brenkman Belief’s Modernity In the tradition of Pascal, inherited religious belief is wracked by doubt and the believer is brought face to face...

... at the University of California, Berkeley. He has translated several of Gi- anni Vattimo’s books into English (including After Christianity) and has written several articles on the religious turn in postmodern philosophy. These concern the work of Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy and place special emphasis...

... could teach with reference to texts consisting of extensive, sym- bolically based rational narratives like Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey or Hesiod’s Theogony, which are religious texts “full of gods,” but which were nevertheless considered suitable for philosophical interpretation...

... lies in securing women's freedom, and the idea that empowering women is a necessary step in eliminating religious fundamentalism in the Muslim world. The testimonials I will analyze have played a crucial role in securing support for the neo-conservative agenda...

...), it is parasitic on some notion of a collective (but not homogeneous) tradition that is assumed to have had a central historical role in the development of a complex religious/secular civilization—and hence in the formation of that identity. BKI: The concept of “tradition” developed in that 1985 paper...

... of Negritude and Iqbal’s modernist Islamic thought by presenting briefly Bergson’s other philosophy, then Senghor’s philosophy of Africanity, and fi- nally, in its third part, Iqbal’s project of a “reconstruction of the religious thought of Islam.” Parts two and three I have...