On diaspora
Subtitle: Christianity, religion and secularity
By: Daniel Colucciello Barber
Publisher: Cascade Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Eugene, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 155
ISBN-13: 9781608994007
Subjects: Religion; Particularism (Theology); Universalism; Philosophy; Secularism; Christianity
Description: A great deal of attention has been given over the past several years to the question: What is secularism? In On Diaspora, Daniel Barber provides an intervention into this debate by arguing that a theory of secularism cannot be divorced from theories of religion, Christianity, and even being. Accordingly, Barber's argument ranges across matters proper to philosophy, religious studies, cultural studies, theology, and anthropology. It is able to do so in a coherent manner as a result of its overarching concern with the concept of diaspora. It is the concept of diaspora, Barber argues, that allows us to think in genuinely novel ways about the relationship between particularity and universality, and as a consequence about Christianity, religion, and secularism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-151) and index.
Table of contents: title: Immanence : namelessness and the production of signification; title: Diaspora; title: The world in the wake of Pauline thought; title: Christianity, religion, and the secular; title: The differentiality of differentialities.