... 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. In its singularity, that fly in the above exercise is a sharp little inflection of the flow of being. It is immanence, which...

...- 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...

... of capital is an abstract and disembodied religion, a cult of the person, and the spirit of capitalism is that logic of religious abstraction that extends beyond the limits of Christianity. The Enlightenment, which posits the existence of natural religion beyond the various religious institutions, thus...

... 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 and mediation. Vigorously theoretical and ethnographically rich, Electric Santería...

... 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...

...William Morgan; Kyra Sutton References 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 . Anidjar Gil . Semites: Race, Religion, Literature...

.... 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...

... Religion: Mourning Secular Futures . New York : Columbia University Press , 2008 . Adcock C. S. The Limits of Tolerance: Indian Secularism and the Politics of Religious Freedom . New York : Oxford University Press , 2014 . Agrama Hussein Ali . Questioning Secularism: Islam...

..., and to the human—in opposition to transcendence, which acts as a sign of the divine or the religious. This basic distribution undergoes complex permutations and conflicting evaluations in the accounts of the legitimacy or, by contrast, the essential nihilism of modernity. Nevertheless, it remains consistently...

... 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...

... and religious politics simplifies our conception of global politics. As argued by Ghamari-Tabrizi, this has led to narratives of the Iranian Revolution (and by extension, the entire Middle East) being recast “as a struggle between progressive, democratic, secular forces against reactionary, autocratic Islamists...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

..., “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. References Abeysekara Ananda . “ Religious Studies’ Mishandling of Origin...

... 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...