The Politics of Postsecular Religion: Mourning Secular Futures
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& mdash;political identity-such as Buddhist, Hindu, Sinhalese, Christian, Muslim...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Columbia University Press
2008
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| In: | Year: 2008 |
| Series/Journal: | Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
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| Summary: | 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& mdash;political identity-such as Buddhist, Hindu, Sinhalese, Christian, Muslim, or Tamil& mdash;can be critiqued, neutralized, improved, and changed, even while remaining inseparable from the genocide of the past. This facile belief, he argues, is precisely what distracts us from challenging the violence inherent in postcolonial political sovereignty. At the same time, we cannot simpl |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| ISBN: | 0231142900 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.7312/abey14290 |