Secularity, Religion, and the Spatialization of Time
Although secularity is often contrasted with religion as though the distinction between them bisected society, sorting practices and people into competing kinds, their relation is better understood as analogous to that between a frame and what is framed by it: secularity so conceived is not simp...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2018]
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 86, Issue: 3, Pages: 591-615 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Secularism
/ Religion
/ Spatial turn
/ Time
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism |
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| Summary: | Although secularity is often contrasted with religion as though the distinction between them bisected society, sorting practices and people into competing kinds, their relation is better understood as analogous to that between a frame and what is framed by it: secularity so conceived is not simply the inverse, negative space of religion but the epistemic regime that enables us to speak of religion in the first place, as a particular object of modern interest and anxiety. Secularity, I contend, can be understood temporally as that time in which religion occupies space. This paper draws upon Walter Benjamin's concept of Messianic time to gain critical leverage on the temporal horizons of the nation-state and the neoliberal market. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4585 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American Academy of Religion, Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfx047 |