http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif Secularism, religion, and the public sphere Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:54:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2009/07/01/not-an-end-but-a-beginning/ http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2009/07/01/not-an-end-but-a-beginning/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:21:10 +0000 William Ayers http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/?p=1962 http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2009/07/01/not-an-end-but-a-beginning/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/10/20/resistance-critique-religion/ http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/10/20/resistance-critique-religion/#comments Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:43:01 +0000 Simon During http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/?p=632 stimulating last post encouraged me to reread the debate asking "Is Critique Secular?"from the beginning, and in doing so I began to wonder what would happen to the discussion if we added to it the notion of "resistance".  By resistance I simply mean the refusal to accept the social system in which one lives.  I am partly inspired by Robert Bellah's wonderful post, which makes the case that elements within several axial religions share a single impulse with Western theoria, namely renunciation thought precisely as (a practical and/or conceptual) departure from one's inherited social condition.  For Bellah, renunciation typically becomes institutionalized and then carries out critique from a relatively autonomous social space, in a routinizing extension which, somewhat in Charles Taylor's spirit, he thinks contains "explosive potentialities for good and for evil."]]> http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/10/20/resistance-critique-religion/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/10/06/critique-and-conviction/ http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/10/06/critique-and-conviction/#comments Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:14:16 +0000 Justin Neuman http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/?p=574 heated exchange in this forum between Stathis Gourgouris and Saba Mahmood raises a basic question about conviction through which the relationship between critique and the secular can be approached from a different angle: can we be committed to---can we believe or have faith in---a particular position, idea, religion, etc. and nonetheless be fully critical toward it?]]> http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/10/06/critique-and-conviction/feed/ 1 http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/08/11/the-renouncers/ http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/08/11/the-renouncers/#comments Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:38:41 +0000 Robert Bellah http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/?p=319 the axial age"---the period in antiquity that gave rise to such social critique through practices of renunciation---is a resource or a burden in our current human crisis. […]]]> http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/08/11/the-renouncers/feed/ 1 http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/06/22/secular-brooding-literary-brooding/ http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/06/22/secular-brooding-literary-brooding/#comments Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:16:04 +0000 Colin Jager http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/?p=268 in several posts here on The Immanent Frame. He says that Charles Taylor's book A Secular Age is an example of heteronomous thinking, and he also thinks that Saba Mahmood's post on secularism and critique exemplifies it. Though Gourgouris doesn't define "heteronomous thinking," he seems to mean something like "thinking that depends at some crucial point on something outside itself." He thinks this kind of thinking is pretty bad---though it's less clear exactly why he thinks so. [...]]]> http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/06/22/secular-brooding-literary-brooding/feed/ 1 http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/05/07/secular-imperatives/ http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/05/07/secular-imperatives/#comments Wed, 07 May 2008 15:14:59 +0000 Saba Mahmood http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/?p=240 http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/05/07/secular-imperatives/feed/ 2 http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/04/24/secularism-and-critique/ http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/04/24/secularism-and-critique/#comments Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:02:58 +0000 Charles Taylor http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/?p=235 http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/04/24/secularism-and-critique/feed/ 11 http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/04/19/anti-secularist-failures/ http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/04/19/anti-secularist-failures/#comments Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:10:10 +0000 Stathis Gourgouris http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/?p=225 http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/04/19/anti-secularist-failures/feed/ 1 http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/03/30/is-critique-secular-2/ http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/03/30/is-critique-secular-2/#comments Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:23:18 +0000 Saba Mahmood http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/03/30/is-critique-secular-2/ http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/03/30/is-critique-secular-2/feed/ 4 http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/02/15/equal-opportunity-criticism-affirmative-faction/ http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/02/15/equal-opportunity-criticism-affirmative-faction/#comments Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:00:50 +0000 Gil Anidjar http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/02/15/equal-opportunity-criticism-affirmative-faction/ transcendent position vis-à-vis the object of one’s critique. What object? More often than not “religion” and better yet “religions.” But not only religion, of course.]]> http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/02/15/equal-opportunity-criticism-affirmative-faction/feed/ 1