The Politics of Faith and the Limits of Scientific Reason: Tracking the Anthropology of Human Rights and Religion

This article explores the reality of translating or vernacularizing practices in relation to the politics of religion and the realities of faith. Taking violence as endemic to the processes of vernacularization and translation, the article articulates an analytic theory of religious faith—the way it...

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Autor principal: Clarke, Kamari Maxine 1966- (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
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Publicado: [2010]
En: Religion and society
Año: 2010, Volumen: 1, Número: 1, Páginas: 110-130
Otras palabras clave:B rights-endowed subjectivity
B Islamic revitalization
B Religión
B limits of reason and rationality
B violence of cultural change
B Human Rights
B Secularism
B Truth
Acceso en línea: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Sumario:This article explores the reality of translating or vernacularizing practices in relation to the politics of religion and the realities of faith. Taking violence as endemic to the processes of vernacularization and translation, the article articulates an analytic theory of religious faith—the way it is violated, often in the interest of making it legible within neo-liberal universalizing trends. Thinking about these realities involves understanding translations both as productive of cultural change and as manifestations of struggles over power. Many of these struggles are in the interstices among particular principles of individualism, secularism, legal rationality, and evidence. This article seeks to review the assumptions that emerge with these concepts and show their limits.
ISSN:2150-9301
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Religion and society
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.3167/arrs.2010.010108