The politics of postsecular religion
Subtitle: mourning secular futures
By: Ananda Abeysekara.
Series: Insurrections
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780231142908; 9780231512671
Subjects: Religion; Secularism; Democracy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-310) and index.
Table of contents: title: Thinking the un-improvable, thinking the un-inheritable; title: Aporias of secularism; title: Postcolonial community or democratic responsibility? : a problem of inheritance; title: Toward mourning political sovereignty : a politics "between a no-longer and a not-yet"; title: Im-passable limits of fugitive politics : identity for and against itself; title: Active forgetting of history, the "im-possibility" of justice; title: Politics of "postsecular" ethics, futures of anti-genealogy : community without community?