RT Article
T1 The Politics of Faith and the Limits of Scientific Reason: Tracking the Anthropology of Human Rights and Religion
JF Religion and society
VO 1
IS 1
SP 110
OP 130
A1 Clarke, Kamari Maxine 1966-
LA English
YR 2010
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1667386239
AB 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.
K1 Islamic revitalization
K1 Human Rights
K1 limits of reason and rationality
K1 Religion
K1 rights-endowed subjectivity
K1 Secularism
K1 Truth
K1 violence of cultural change
DO 10.3167/arrs.2010.010108