Abeysekara, Ananda, 1968-

The politics of postsecular religion : mourning secular futures / Ananda Abeysekara. - New York : Columbia University Press, c2008. - xvi, 324 p. ; 24 cm. - Insurrections .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-310) and index.

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 anti-genealogy : community without community?

9780231142908 (cloth : alk. paper) 0231142900 (cloth : alk. paper)

2007045831

GBA819603 bnb

014524378 Uk


Religion.
Secularism.
Democracy.

BL51 / .A33 2008