The Politics of Postsecular Religion: Mourning Secular Futures

Ananda Abeysekara

May, 2008
Cloth, 344 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14290-8
$50.00 / £29.50

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: Identity for and Against Itself

6. Active Forgetting of History, the "Im-possibility" of Justice

7. Politics of "Postsecular" Ethics, Futures of Anti-genealogy: Community Without Community?

Notes

Index

Related Subjects

• Asian Studies
• Political Philosophy
• Political Theory

Series

• Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture

About the Author

Ananda Abeysekara is associate professor of religious studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He is the author of Colors of the Robe: Religion, Identity, and Difference, which won the American Academy of Religion's award for Best First Book in the History of Religions.

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