Inside Looking In: Complicity and Critique

Although postsecular criticism seems dedicated to the deconstruction of an untenable religious/secular binary, the discourse harbors an unacknowledged complicity with the very terms we attempt to deconstruct. Responding to challenges by Tracy Fessenden and Laura Levitt, the essay recommends what Gay...

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Published in:Christianity & literature
Main Author: Ludwig, Kathryn (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Johns Hopkins University Press [2018]
In: Christianity & literature
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
TJ Modern history
Further subjects:B complicity critique
B LEVITT, Laura
B Literary Studies
B Literature
B Postsecularism
B Religion
B Identification (religion)
B RELIGION & literature
B SPIVAK, Gayatri Chakravorty, 1942-
B FESSENDEN, Tracy
B Postsecular
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Summary:Although postsecular criticism seems dedicated to the deconstruction of an untenable religious/secular binary, the discourse harbors an unacknowledged complicity with the very terms we attempt to deconstruct. Responding to challenges by Tracy Fessenden and Laura Levitt, the essay recommends what Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak names a “productive acknowledgment of complicity” for postsecular studies.
ISSN:2056-5666
Contains:Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0148333117731581