A leap of faith
Thoughts on Secularistic Practices and Progressive Politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4388554 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anila Daulatzai (0000-0002-6603-1286, Johns Hopkins University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 182 |
| Pages | 565-576 |
| Publication date | 2004-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Social Science Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8701 • E-ISSN: 1468-2451 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.0020-8701.2004.00517.x |
| OpenAlex | W2106683797 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 6 |
The political sentiment represented by the WSF celebrates diversity, and cultivates a substrate where movements can be incubated, and prosper. This paper questions a particular secular(ist) vocabulary, grammar, and culture of politics exhibited at the WSF in Mumbai. It asks whether the political space of the Forum, which is defined as open, democratic, and tolerant, must necessarily be a secular one, or whether a secularistic political affect closes potentialities by narrowing the possibilities for anti-imperial critiques, thus excluding valid forms of dissent? The paper will argue that a secularistic culture of politics can be an impediment for an emerging and growing revolutionary phenomenon because of its exclusionary and limiting tendencies. Building on a critique of affective politics, it will be shown that the imperative of a politics of resistance free from religious sentiments will both fail to address the needs of vast majorities of the planet's inhabitants and continue to provide opportunities for more fundamental and violent alternatives to flourish. Drawing from the work of Connolly, Deleuze and Guattari, as well as Ramadan, this paper critiques the privileged space allotted to secularism, and invites discussion about how to provide scope for the possibility of a political ethic which does not alienate believers, instead creating the potential for new models of political pluralism
Democracy · Dissent · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Faith · Phenomenon · Pluralism (philosophy · Political dissent · Political science · Politics · Secularism · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
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| Citations per year | 1.36 |
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| Citation span | 2012 - 2020 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |