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Religion This volume has emerged from a collaboration among: The NWO Research Council for the Humanities (GW), The NWO Research Council for Social Sciences (MaGW), and The Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research (WOTRO). International Advisory Board Veena Das, Chair Christoph Auffarth Peter Clarke Galit Hasan-Rokem Michael Lambek Regina M. Schwartz THE FUTURE OF THE RELIGIOUS PAST Hent de Vries,General Editor In what sense are the legacies of religion—its powers, words, things, and gestures—disarticulating and recon- stellating themselves as the elementary forms of life in the twenty-first century? This sequence of five vol- umes publishes work drawn from an international research project that seeks to answer this question. Editorial Board Meerten ter Borg Jan Bremmer Martin van Bruinessen Jan Willem van Henten Dick Houtman Anne-Marie Korte Birgit Meyer Religion BEYOND A CONCEPT Edited by HENT de VRIES FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW YORK 2008 Copyright(cid:2)2008FordhamUniversityPress Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedinaretrieval system,ortransmittedinanyformorbyanymeans—electronic,mechanical,photocopy, recording,oranyother—exceptforbriefquotationsinprintedreviews,withouttheprior permissionofthepublisher. Contents Illustrations xii Preface xiii Introduction:WhyStill‘‘Religion’’? HENT DE VRIES 1 PART I: ‘‘WHAT IS RELIGION?’’ PublicReligionsRevisited JOSE´ CASANOVA 101 ProvincializingGod?ProvocationsfromanAnthropology ofReligion MICHAEL LAMBEK 120 TranslatingGods:ReligionasaFactorofCultural (Un)Translatability JAN ASSMANN 139 TheChristianInventionofJudaism:TheTheodosian EmpireandtheRabbinicRefusalofReligion DANIEL BOYARIN 150 TheFutureoftheReligiousPast CHARLES TAYLOR 178 ReligionasMemory:ReferencetoTraditionandthe ConstitutionofaHeritageofBeliefinModern Societies DANIE`LE HERVIEU-LE´GER 245 IfThisBeMagic...:ExcursionsintoContemporary HinduLives VEENA DAS 259 vii CONTENTS PART II: RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY MetaphysicsandPhenomenology:AReliefforTheology JEAN-LUC MARION 283 WhatNoOneElseCanDoinMyPlace:AConversation withEmmanuelLevinas EMMANUEL LEVINAS AND FRANCE GUWY 297 Abraham,theOther JACQUES DERRIDA 311 FromFrenchAlgeriatoJerusalem:AnItinerary HENRI ATLAN 339 NatureasReligiousForceinEriugenaandEmerson WILLEMIEN OTTEN 354 InheritingtheWound:ReligionandPhilosophyin StanleyCavell ASJA SZAFRANIEC 368 ADeconstructionofMonotheism JEAN-LUC NANCY 380 AfterTheism H. J. ADRIAANSE 392 PART III: METHODS OF INSTRUCTION AND COMPARISON TeachingReligiousFactsinSecularSchools RE´GIS DEBRAY 415 Secularization:NotesTowardaGenealogy JAN BREMMER 432 AnAlternativeViewofChristianity:ATroeltschean Perspective ARIE L. MOLENDIJK 438 AsCloseasaScholarCanGet:ExploringaOne-Field ApproachtotheStudyofReligion ANDRE´ DROOGERS 448 viii CONTENTS ‘‘Religion’’inPublicDebates:WhoDefines,forWhat Purposes? WILLEM B. DREES 464 TheFieldofReligionandEcology:Addressingthe EnvironmentalCrisisandChallengingFaiths TONY WATLING 473 PART IV: EMERGING CONTEXTS ThePoliticsofLoveandItsEnemies DAVID NIRENBERG 491 ReligiousIndifference:OntheNatureofMedieval Christianity M. B. PRANGER 513 ChristatLarge:IconographyandTerritorialityinPostwar Ambon PATRICIA SPYER 524 RenewingTime:CharismaticRenewalinaConservative ReformedChurch PETER VERSTEEG 550 PART V: RELIGION, POLITICS, AND LAW NeutralizingReligion;or,WhatIstheOppositeof ‘‘Faith-based’’? WINNIFRED FALLERS SULLIVAN 563 ReflectionsonBlasphemyandSecularCriticism TALAL ASAD 580 IsLiberalismaReligion? MICHAEL WARNER 610 SocialDemocracyandReligion:TheReverse Breakthrough JOB COHEN 618 TowardaPoliticsofSingularity:ProtectionandProjection SAMUEL WEBER 626 ix
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