The Politics of Religious Repetition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12201813 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Miller (0000-0001-6554-9174, Department of Humanities, Landmark CollegePutney, VT 05346), Daniel D Miller (0000-0002-5654-7588, Landmark College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 287-307 |
| Publication date | 2014-09-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Method & Theory in the Study of Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0943-3058 • E-ISSN: 1570-0682 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15700682-12341321 |
| OpenAlex | W2317366947 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 14 |
Otherwise diverse genealogical critiques of the discursive category “religion” share a concern to highlight the complicity of this category in colonial and neo-imperial projects, which are effected through the depoliticizing of non-Western subject populations. I argue that countering such depoliticization is more difficult than it may appear, and that some such critiques fall into a form of transcendental historicism that, in fact, further depoliticizes the subjects of colonialism and neo-imperialism. I develop this point through a specific consideration of two such studies, suggesting that their failure owes to their adoption of a mimetic understanding of cultural identity. As an alternative, I theorize the global “resurgence of religion” in terms of Jacques Derrida’s notion of “religion without religion,” arguing that such phenomena represent non-identical, as opposed to mimetic, repetitions of religion which disrupt colonial and neo-imperial legacies. This alternative theorization overcomes the depoliticization inherent in genealogically historicist approaches
Aesthetics · Colonialism · Complicity · Epistemology · Historicism · Historicity (philosophy · Identity (music · Linguistics · New Historicism · Political science · Politics · Repetition (rhetorical device · Sociology · Subject (documents · Transcendental number · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development
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| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2022 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |