A Profession of Faith

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ID20064702
AuthorsEdwin Ng (Deakin University, corresponding author)
Year2016
Pages209-246
Publication date2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueBuddhism and Cultural Studies (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/978-1-137-54990-7_9
OpenAlexW2497586666
ISBN9781137549907
LanguageEN
References cited25

Chapter 9 argues that the question of faith cannot be ignored if cultural studies is to honour the ethical commitment to always be response-able to difference. The chapter first shows, by way of an analysis of a discussion thread on a Buddhist forum I participate in, how I have come to trust in Buddhist teachings with a faith that makes its leap where knowledge ends: a faith in and of undecidability. I then elaborate on faith in/of undecidability by examining the dispute between a radical-atheist and a theologically inspired reading of deconstruction, as well as the consonances and points of disagreement between Charles Taylor's and William Connolly's thinking on immanence/transcendence. With these analyses I will offer a two-pronged proposition about the question of faith: that faith enables a relation with the other and is necessary for the fostering of intellectual hospitality and relations of reciprocity within academic discourse and beyond; and that the ethical and political implications of faith be investigated in relation to the affective and visceral dynamics of experience

Epistemology · Faith · Honour · Hospitality · Immanence · Political science · Politics · Reciprocity (cultural anthropology) · Social science · Sociology · Transcendence (philosophy) · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions

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