...Rajbir Singh Judge A review of Julia Stephens , Governing Islam: Law, Empire, and Secularism in Modern South Asia ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2018 ); Brinkley Messick , Sharīʿa Scripts: A Historical Anthropology ( New York : Columbia University Press , 2018...

...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...

...Wendy Brown Copyright © 2014 Qui Parle 2014 Is Marx (Capital) Secular? wendy brown Money is the alienated ability of mankind. —Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 Religion is only the illusory sun about which man revolves so long as he does...

...Alex Dubilet Abstract This essay proposes to rethink the conceptual associations that bind immanence to the secular and oppose it to (divine) transcendence. It asks: What if immanence is divorced from the conceptual opposition between the world and its openings to (divine) other(s), between...

... in Edward Said’s secular criticism between filiative and affiliative social bonds. Copyright © 2021 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2021 Dubravka Ugrešić exile post-Yugoslav literature Edward Said affiliation True genesis is not at the beginning but at the end, and it starts to begin only when...

... if the anthropological concept of religion that supported it collapses. It is therefore impossible to maintain the critique of capital as it is while refusing the critique of religion that lies at its foundation. Copyright © 2020 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2020 Karl Marx secular reason secular 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the Christ’s advent and return, and which for the secular modern came to mark a time in which “religion” would be superseded.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...

..., anthropology, religion and secularism studies, philosophy, and critical race theory via the figure of the network and the ever-contentious frame of belief in order to ask not only what it means to live in a networked world but also, perhaps more important, what it means to believe that we live in one...

... within new frames of reference (replacing one interpretive category with another). 6 As he says here, he is not interested in “proposing paradigms.” Rather than declare a theory of state or capital, of religion or even of secularism, Asad works to understand the grammar of concepts, forms of life...

... 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...

..., Religious Difference in a Secular Age . For an account that rethinks the assumptions about the relation between colonial encounter and resistance by questioning the conventional narratives about colonial law preceding and merely being assimilated into the colonial project, see Anghie, Imperialism...

...,” and consequently our own experience becomes the object of our attention.5 This is a mental attitude available at least since Augustine, Taylor tells us, though it is not widely distributed until the early modern period. Such re- fl exivity is often central to stories of secularization, for it gives...

...: Books I and II , translated by Charlton William . Oxford : Clarendon , 1984 . Asad Talal . “ Anthropology and the Analysis of Ideology .” Man 14 , no. 4 ( 1979 ): 607 – 27 . Asad Talal . Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity . Stanford, CA...

..., and secularism and religion. His articles on these topics have appeared in many venues, including MLQ, Public Culture, Studies in Romanticism, and ELH. He is co- leader of the “Objects and Environments” seminar at the Center for Cultural Analysis, and he is the author of The Book...

... capitalism, state sovereignty, and the conceits of Western liberal secularism? And fi nally, as queried above, what happens to sovereignty at the hour of neoliberalism’s ascendance? Looming behind these questions and their various iterations in the dossier is the problem of the status of the state...

... and the restoration of secular politics (a threat that had remained since the Islamic revolution of 1979). Ghamari-Tabrizi suggests that had we embodied a critical humility toward these events and embraced their singular forces (rather than defining them within a limited binary frame), their outcomes might have been...

... in turning our attention (and a few other things) around, and anew, to the matter of religion, it could confi rm for us that we have left behind what Charles Taylor has recently—not to men- tion, strangely—termed “the secular age.”25 But it hardly brings us “back” to any prior mode of existence...

...- er Muslim women, offering increased support for their education, provided it is secular, giving asylum to women fleeing "gender total- itarianism," and restoring U.S. aid for the United Nations family planning program. She qualifies her recommendations by saying, "I...

... Copyright © 2009 Qui Parle 2009 Contributors talal asad is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the City Univer- sity of New York Graduate Center. He works on questions of religion and secularism in modernity. Major publications include On Suicide Bombing; Formations...

..., Jonathan Vanantwerpen, and Craig Calhoun, eds. Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age. Cambridge: Harvard Uni- versity Press, 2010. Young, Dean. The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2010. ...