The politics of postsecular religion: mourning secular futures

Thinking the un-improvable, thinking the un-inheritable -- Aporias of secularism -- Postcolonial community or democratic responsibility : a problem of inheritance -- Toward mourning political sovereignty : a politics "between a no-longer and a not yet" -- Im-passable limits of fugitive pol...

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Main Author: Abeysekara, Ananda 1968- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: New York [u.a.] Columbia University Press c2008
In:Year: 2008
Series/Journal:Insurrections
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Western world / Religion / Secularism / Democracy
B India
B Sri Lanka
B Tibet
B India / Religion / Secularism / Democracy
B Sri Lanka / Religion / Secularism / Democracy
B Tibet / Religion / Secularism / Democracy
Further subjects:B Religion
B Democracy
B Secularism
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Summary:Thinking the un-improvable, thinking the un-inheritable -- Aporias of secularism -- Postcolonial community or democratic responsibility : a problem of inheritance -- Toward mourning political sovereignty : a politics "between a no-longer and a not yet" -- Im-passable limits of fugitive politics : identity for and against itself -- Active forgetting of history, the "im-possibility" of justice -- Politics of "postsecular" ethics, futures of antigenealogy : community without community
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-310) and index
ISBN:0231142900