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African Americans, the Racial State, and the Cultus of War: Sacrifice and Citizenship
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Social Text (2016) 34 (4 (129)): 41–70.
Published: 01 December 2016
... the military imperatives of the very White government that subjected them to the assaults of racism through legal sanction. Central to this problem was the ritual power of civil religion, particularly the role of death in warfare. By risking their lives through military service, African American soldiers...
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Dogma-Line Racism: Islamophobia and the Second Axis of Race
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Social Text (2012) 30 (2 (111)): 43–74.
Published: 01 June 2012
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Rousseau, for example, will take up the new question of “civil religion,”
evaluating which forms of religion are conducive to public unity and which
threaten divisiveness.59 Here the issue of war and violence arises as an
answer to a secular modern “problem,” a Jewish or Muslim problem...
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James Baldwin and the Power of Black Muslim Language
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Social Text (2019) 37 (1 (138)): 51–84.
Published: 01 March 2019
... a color and a vocal sound but also a mood and a music. Baldwin draws on hymns of black religion and the black church (“the fire next time,” “down at the cross”) to depict a contrapuntal relationship between the Christian-inflected civil rights movement and Black Muslim mobilization. Using apocalyptic...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (4 (129)): 1–17.
Published: 01 December 2016
... during and after the Cold War), to convert the political other as well as the colonial subordinate into a full-fledged political enemy. 29 A related line of argument stresses the ethical and conjunctural modes of relationality suturing race and religion without reifying civil society as its...
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Women between Community and State: SOME IMPLICATIONS OF THE UNIFORM CIVIL CODE DEBATES IN INDIA
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Social Text (2000) 18 (4 (65)): 55–82.
Published: 01 December 2000
... ety in India is, as has often been noted, a contested space invaded by
both religion and (secular) modernizing reform,28 then the question of a
noted, a uniform civil code will be decided through the clashes that take place...
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Theses on the Questions of War: History, Media, Terror
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Social Text (2002) 20 (3 (72)): 149–175.
Published: 01 September 2002
...Rosalind C. Morris Duke University Press 2002 Theses on the Questions of War: History, Media, Terror
Why does the history of the East appear as a history of religions? Rosalind C.
—Karl Marx...
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Continuity or Rupture?: AN ARGUMENT FOR SECULAR BRITAIN
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Social Text (2000) 18 (3 (64)): 105–121.
Published: 01 September 2000
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The debate over secularism and public affirmation of religion easily Ranu Samantrai
transposes onto anxieties regarding immigration into the liberal democ-
ratic nations of Western Europe and North America. The anxious worry
that the increasing size and strength...
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INTRODUCTION
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Social Text (2000) 18 (3 (64)): 1–27.
Published: 01 September 2000
...-known
essay on the “Shahbano” case. She demonstrates how the battles over a
uniform civil code in India are fought out between and among religions
and secularisms, and in terms of the treatment of women. Sunder Rajan...
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Sincerely Held; Or, the Pastorate 2.0
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Social Text (2016) 34 (4 (129)): 71–85.
Published: 01 December 2016
... test, law cannot and does not distinguish religion from nonreligion; individual believers can and do. Instead, courts trust a person’s or group’s self-reporting—that they sincerely believe what they say they believe—and adjudicate from that point forward. As a criterion, sincerity invokes a host...
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Uncivil Wrongs: RACE, RELIGION, HATE, AND INCEST IN QUEER POLITICS
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Social Text (2005) 23 (3-4 (84-85)): 251–274.
Published: 01 December 2005
...Michael Cobb Duke University Press 2005 Uncivil Wrongs
R ACE, RELIGION, H ATE, AND INCEST IN QUEER POLITICS...
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“What Do Children Learn at School?”: Necropedagogy and the Future of the Dead Child
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Social Text (2008) 26 (4 (97)): 97–105.
Published: 01 December 2008
... about by the upheavals of the
Reformation and the sectarian wars unleashed in its wake.6 Progress toward
civil peace required the privatization of religion and the establishment
of secular reason as the foundation of the modern nation-state...
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Archaic Modernities: SCIENCE, SECULARISM, AND RELIGION IN MODERN INDIA
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Social Text (2000) 18 (3 (64)): 67–86.
Published: 01 September 2000
... the role of religion in civil society, rel-
egating religion to the “personal,” while others want to put religion center
stage of a new moral order. The ideological positions are dizzying. And
here perhaps is the power...
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Introduction: Césaire in 1956
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Social Text (2010) 28 (2 (103)): 115–125.
Published: 01 June 2010
... and disappointments over a decade in a political career,
rather than a tempestuous and unprovoked outburst.8 The most obvious
precursor to these pieces is Césaire’s best-known work of prose, the book
Discourse on Civilization, which was first published in a small...
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(Un)Veiling Feminism
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Social Text (2000) 18 (3 (64)): 29–45.
Published: 01 September 2000
... and accepted political paradigms. We have an
unshaped and fluid muddle with women as key producers of it! Two con-
cepts, feminism and civil society, move through this complex reconfigu-
ration and acquire new meanings, while crafting a discursive space more
marked...
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No Longer a “Whore,” Not Yet a “Terrorist,” Never a Citizen: Majoritarian Right and the Rabble
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Social Text (2013) 31 (4 (117)): 1–24.
Published: 01 December 2013
... manufactures a disaffected “rabble” without social composition, civil objectivity, or rights. The Hegelian rabble is a condition of permanent distress ( Notrecht ) and rightlessness marked by its unrealized and unrealizable integration into society. The rabble emerges as a right without right in strip searches...
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Militarizing Race
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Social Text (2016) 34 (4 (129)): 19–40.
Published: 01 December 2016
...David Theo Goldberg Against the historical background of the transitions between religion and race, of race as the secularization of the religious, this article traces the ways race operates in the conduct of social struggles, wars, and warring in the making and refashioning of racial conception...
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Black Malpractice (A Poetics of the Sacred)
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Social Text (2019) 37 (2): 67–107.
Published: 01 June 2019
... and sacrality, the very alliance that produces “civil religion” by subjecting the wild energies or the “total value” of the sacred to “right-hand” capture, blackness is disclosed as monstrous enthusiasm, as monstrance of an abundance capturable neither by currency nor politicality, as a kind of (witch...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (3): 1–24.
Published: 01 September 2019
... makes possible. —Eva Cherniavsky, Neocitizenship I start with these epigraphs because together they suggest that available forms of personhood, citizenship, and, indeed, so-called civilized being rely on a historically shifting relationship of subjects to their own subjection. Liberal...
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In the Men’s Room: E. B. Tylor and the Will to Systematize
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Social Text (2014) 32 (3 (120)): 87–107.
Published: 01 September 2014
... was the
origin — of culture, of religion, of mind, of systematicity incarnate. “Ani-
mism,” wrote Tylor, “was the groundwork of the Philosophy of Religion,
from that of savages up to that of civilized men.” For when primitive man
began to think he became “deeply impressed by two groups of biological...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (1 (142)): 17–38.
Published: 01 March 2020
... private benefactions. . . . We know that emotional characteristics, in common with all others, are hereditary; and the differences between civilized nations descended from the same stock show us the cumulative results of small modifications hereditarily transmitted. And when we see that between savage...
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