...Ranu Samantrai Duke University Press 2000 6. Samantrai 8/9/00 12:52 PM Page 105 Continuity or Rupture? AN ARGUMENT FOR SECULAR BRITAIN...

...Robert J. Baird Duke University Press 2000 7. Baird 8/9/00 12:52 PM Page 123 Late Secularism In August of 1999 the Kansas Board of Education voted to downgrade Robert J. Baird...

...Banu Subramaniam Duke University Press 2000 4. Subramaniam 8/9/00 12:51 PM Page 67 Archaic Modernities SCIENCE, SECULARISM, AND RELIGION IN MODERN INDIA...

...Stathis Gourgouris Orientalism and the Open Horizon of Secular Criticism I have considered Edward Said’s work at length on various occasions in Stathis Gourgouris the past, concerning problems of nationalism or comparative literature, Theodor Adorno, Jean Genet...

... and Repossession The forms and fables of Western culture, as Vico might have called them, serve for the Palestinian critic as true repilogamenti — gatherings and com- mentaries that make some other secular order or secular critique pos...

...Ann Pellegrini This essay moves to investigate the co-constitution of “the child” and “the secular.” Twins of modernity, “the child” and “the secular” underwrite moral claims about progress, the universal human, and the ordering of time itself. These moral claims are carried forward by dominant...

..., phenotype, cultural identity, through which bodies have become racially ascribed as white or nonwhite. Rather, Islamophobia demonstrates that religion (and by extension, secular “ideology”) has historically generated a supplemental racial dynamic irreducible to the assignation of color. This second axis...

... of new modes of transnational Pentecostalism. A central concern is how Deedat draws on forms of secular critique and biblical hermeneutics as part of his call for da'wa (religious awakening) among Muslims. It draws on close textual analysis of writings and video cassettes to tease out the formal...

... and the third-world proxy wars for the purportedly secular rivalry of the Cold War to the contemporary conditions of Muslim migrant and refugee communities—these multiple overlapping genealogies, we argue, are necessary reference points for an adequate analysis of our political present. As one way to think...

...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...

... have been withdrawn. Linking it in part to the secular elimination of the afterlife and the confinement of person to a finite body whose time is limited entirely to itself, such that time and body become coterminous, the author argues that terminality changes the embodiment of time in a specific way...

...Michael Ralph If commodification is endemic to the logic of capitalism, it is perhaps because the space of the sacred—that which cannot have a market value affixed to it—has apparently receded. Still the idea that commodities are born from secular revelations suggests that there is plenty more...

... Secularisms at the Millennium INTRODUCTION Dreaming Secularism Critical theory encourages us to look closely at the binaries that construct Janet R...

... identity and respecting religious difference, operates therefore within rather than despite a constitutional commitment to the secularism of the Indian state. Any proposed reform or removal of personal laws becomes a fraught...

... for secularism of Iranian modernity. My hope in rethinking the history of feminism is to seek out possibilities for the present moment of Iranian politics. I mean to be provocative but not accusatory, seeking to unpack the implications of feminism’s imbrication...

... of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity . Palo Alto, CA : Stanford University Press . Berlant Lauren . 2013 . “Interview with Lauren Berlant,” interview by David Seitz . Society and Space (blog), 22 March . societyandspace.com/material/interviews/interview-with-lauren-berlant...

... in Turkey are all frequently invoked as a confirmation of this suspicion. The progressive response has often been to shore up some notion of the secular as a space of neutrality unsullied by such religious ambitions, from which they may be judged and within which a progressive politics may...

... Paradoxically enough, temporality can be said to have genealogies of its Geeta Patel own. In what follows I trace the coimplications of Christian, Christian- secular, and Hindu temporalities in the capitalist production of the mili- tarized Indian nation. Here...

... was once all of life. To this demand for the rootedness of culture, we may counterpose, following Edward Said, the ethical imperatives of “secular” consciousness, a melancholy insistence that this-worldly experience...

...- tion despite the fact that this explanation was based on dubious evidence?5 Religion, Secularism, and Queer Possibility The commonsensical notion as to why sexual regulation is so central in U.S. public life is that it has something...