Arvind Mandair
Biographic Data
| ID | 614142 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arvind Mandair |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arvind |
| FAMILY NAME | Mandair |
| SIGNATURE | MANDAIR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hofstra University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Aporiaand the postsecular
The Politics of Postsecular Religion by Ananda Abeysekara provides a novel critical intervention within the growing debate on religion and the secular. It does this by exposing a limitation of the influential form of criticism known as ‘genealogical critique’ that has become popular in disciplines such as postcolonial studies, history of religions and anthropology. By grounding critical thought on the logic of aporia, it is possible to interrupt …
Uneasy Repetitions: A Response
This essay is responds to the critical essays by Nijhawan, Mas and Hawthorne. The case is made that each criticism is based on a misreading or misunderstanding of “Religion and the Specter of the West.”
Interdictions: Language, Religion & the (dis)Orders of Indian Identity
Although religion and language have long been accepted as crucial to the formation of nationalisms, they continue to be analysed as separate components. Derrida's theorizing of the nexus religion-language-subjectivity, however, shows that language and religion, far from being separate, are inextricably connected. Indeed it could be claimed that the two processes (monotheism vs monolingualism) should be considered as part of a single formation tha…
The Politics of Nonduality: Reassessing the Work of Transcendence in Modern Sikh Theology
This article interrogates the ideological foundations of modern Sikh theology as found in the exegetical commentaries on Sikh scripture written by scholars belonging to the neocolonial reformist movement, the Singh Sabha. Drawing on post-structuralist critiques of transcendence, I argue that attempts by the Singh Sabha’s leading ideologue, Bhai Vir Singh (BVS), to construct a hermeneutic faithful to scripture could not avoid transforming what can…
Hegel's excess: Indology, historical difference and the post-secular turn of theory
Arguably the most important theoretical movement to have influenced post-colonial studies of India stems from Edward Said's critique of Orientalism. Now built into the very fabric of discourse on S
Refusals: Opening the Difference in Dialogue
The collection of articles in this special issue of Social Identities were presented in two separate panels of the international conference on 'Dialogue and Difference' which took place at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies between 12 and 14 September 2001.The idea behind these panels*/respectively entitled 'Is it Good to Talk?: Refusals of Dialogue' and 'Dialogues Between Cultures and Civilizations'*/was to draw at…
The Repetition of Past Imperialisms: Hegel, Historical Difference, and the Theorization of Indic Religions
Dialogue as the Inscription of 'The West
The international conference on 'Dialogue and Difference' took place in London, at the School of Oriental and African Studies, between 12 and 14 September 2001.Over three intense days, 26 papers were presented and discussed by leading scholars from Japan, the USA, China, Iran, Korea, Germany, France and Great Britain.The conference sought to explore the widely felt and growing concern that, despite an increasingly globalised system of linkages, t…
The unbearable proximity of the Orient: Political religion, multiculturalism and the retrieval of South Asian identities
The phenomenon of religion -- specifically its recent return as 'political religion', and its seeming incompatibility with the demands of multiculturalism -- continues to be a vexed issue in attempts to rethink retrievals of South Asian identity beyond a neo-colonial imaginary. This move 'beyond' has routinely followed a deconstruction of the 'religious effects' of Orientalism whose conceptual matrix, some argue, can be located in Hegel's writing…
Aporiaand the postsecular
The Politics of Postsecular Religion by Ananda Abeysekara provides a novel critical intervention within the growing debate on religion and the secular. It does this by exposing a limitation of the influential form of criticism known as ‘genealogical critique’ that has become popular in disciplines such as postcolonial studies, history of religions and anthropology. By grounding critical thought on the logic of aporia, it is possible to interrupt …
Interdictions: Language, Religion & the (dis)Orders of Indian Identity
Although religion and language have long been accepted as crucial to the formation of nationalisms, they continue to be analysed as separate components. Derrida's theorizing of the nexus religion-language-subjectivity, however, shows that language and religion, far from being separate, are inextricably connected. Indeed it could be claimed that the two processes (monotheism vs monolingualism) should be considered as part of a single formation tha…
The Politics of Nonduality: Reassessing the Work of Transcendence in Modern Sikh Theology
This article interrogates the ideological foundations of modern Sikh theology as found in the exegetical commentaries on Sikh scripture written by scholars belonging to the neocolonial reformist movement, the Singh Sabha. Drawing on post-structuralist critiques of transcendence, I argue that attempts by the Singh Sabha’s leading ideologue, Bhai Vir Singh (BVS), to construct a hermeneutic faithful to scripture could not avoid transforming what can…
Hegel's excess: Indology, historical difference and the post-secular turn of theory
Arguably the most important theoretical movement to have influenced post-colonial studies of India stems from Edward Said's critique of Orientalism. Now built into the very fabric of discourse on S
The unbearable proximity of the Orient: Political religion, multiculturalism and the retrieval of South Asian identities
The phenomenon of religion -- specifically its recent return as 'political religion', and its seeming incompatibility with the demands of multiculturalism -- continues to be a vexed issue in attempts to rethink retrievals of South Asian identity beyond a neo-colonial imaginary. This move 'beyond' has routinely followed a deconstruction of the 'religious effects' of Orientalism whose conceptual matrix, some argue, can be located in Hegel's writing…
The Repetition of Past Imperialisms: Hegel, Historical Difference, and the Theorization of Indic Religions
Dialogue as the Inscription of 'The West
The international conference on 'Dialogue and Difference' took place in London, at the School of Oriental and African Studies, between 12 and 14 September 2001.Over three intense days, 26 papers were presented and discussed by leading scholars from Japan, the USA, China, Iran, Korea, Germany, France and Great Britain.The conference sought to explore the widely felt and growing concern that, despite an increasingly globalised system of linkages, t…
The Politics of Nonduality: Reassessing the Work of Transcendence in Modern Sikh Theology
This article interrogates the ideological foundations of modern Sikh theology as found in the exegetical commentaries on Sikh scripture written by scholars belonging to the neocolonial reformist movement, the Singh Sabha. Drawing on post-structuralist critiques of transcendence, I argue that attempts by the Singh Sabha’s leading ideologue, Bhai Vir Singh (BVS), to construct a hermeneutic faithful to scripture could not avoid transforming what can…
Hegel's excess: Indology, historical difference and the post-secular turn of theory
Arguably the most important theoretical movement to have influenced post-colonial studies of India stems from Edward Said's critique of Orientalism. Now built into the very fabric of discourse on S
Refusals: Opening the Difference in Dialogue
The collection of articles in this special issue of Social Identities were presented in two separate panels of the international conference on 'Dialogue and Difference' which took place at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies between 12 and 14 September 2001.The idea behind these panels*/respectively entitled 'Is it Good to Talk?: Refusals of Dialogue' and 'Dialogues Between Cultures and Civilizations'*/was to draw at…
Interdictions: Language, Religion & the (dis)Orders of Indian Identity
Although religion and language have long been accepted as crucial to the formation of nationalisms, they continue to be analysed as separate components. Derrida's theorizing of the nexus religion-language-subjectivity, however, shows that language and religion, far from being separate, are inextricably connected. Indeed it could be claimed that the two processes (monotheism vs monolingualism) should be considered as part of a single formation tha…
Uneasy Repetitions: A Response
This essay is responds to the critical essays by Nijhawan, Mas and Hawthorne. The case is made that each criticism is based on a misreading or misunderstanding of “Religion and the Specter of the West.”
Aporiaand the postsecular
The Politics of Postsecular Religion by Ananda Abeysekara provides a novel critical intervention within the growing debate on religion and the secular. It does this by exposing a limitation of the influential form of criticism known as ‘genealogical critique’ that has become popular in disciplines such as postcolonial studies, history of religions and anthropology. By grounding critical thought on the logic of aporia, it is possible to interrupt …
Epistemology (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Indian History and Philosophy (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Religious studies (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Hegelianism (3 works)