The Politics of Postsecular Religion : : Mourning Secular Futures /

The Politics of Postsecular Religion : : Mourning Secular Futures / / Ananda Abeysekara.

Ananda Abeysekara contends that democracy, along with its cherished secular norms, is founded on the idea of a promise deferred to the future. Rooted in democracy's messianic promise is the belief that religious—political identity-such as Buddhist, Hindu, Sinhalese, Christian, Muslim, or Tamil—...

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Abeysekara, Ananda,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
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Physical Description:1 online resource (324 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Thinking the Un-improvable, Thinking the Un-inheritable
  • 2. Aporias of Secularism
  • 3. Postcolonial Community or Democratic Responsibility? A Problem of Inheritance
  • 4. Toward Mourning Political Sovereignty: A Politics "Between a No-Longer and a Not-Yet"?
  • 5. Im-passable Limits of Fugitive Politics: Identity for and Against Itself
  • 6. Active Forgetting of History, the "Im-possibility" of Justice
  • 7. Politics of "Postsecular" Ethics, Futures of Anti-genealogy: Community Without Community?
  • Notes
  • Index

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