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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
©2008.
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Colección: | Insurrections.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.