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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, Musli...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Abeysekara, Ananda, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2008.
Colección:Insurrections.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Acknowledgments; 1. Thinking the Un-improvable, Thinking the Un-inheritable; 2. Aporias of Secularism; 3. Postcolonial Community or Democratic Responsibility?: A Problem of Inheritance; 4. Toward Mourning Political Sovereignty: A Politics ""Between a No-Longer and a Not-Yet""?; 5. Im-passable Limits of Fugitive Politics; 6. Active Forgetting of History, the ""Im-possibility"" of Justice; 7. Politics of ""Postsecular"" Ethics, Futures of Anti-genealogy: Community Without Community?; Notes; Index.