The Particular Sacrality of the Secular
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8203533 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tamsin Jones (0000-0001-6369-6875, Religious Studies, Trinity College, McCook, Summit St. Hartford, CT, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 336-341 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7189 • E-ISSN: 1477-4585 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jaarel/lfab006 |
| OpenAlex | W3181482232 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
Bradley Onishi’s Sacrality of the Secular contributes to the debates over the scope and domain of continental philosophy of religion primarily through making a historical argument, skillfully tracing a lineage from Martin Heidegger through George Bataille to Mark Taylor and beyond to the most recent generation of Taylor’s students: Thomas Carlson, Jeff Kosky, and Mary-Jane Rubenstein. In all, he finds exemplars of continental philosophers who encounter, confront, or engage religious phenomena not to posit or defend theological claims, but rather as resources for a richer conceptualization of the secular than the rigidly truncated secularist version. Heidegger is the first to break free from Weber’s “iron cage” of dogmatic secularism by refusing to set up a strict divide between the secular and the sacred. The secular—the world and the human within it—are already always constituted by “an indeterminacy that resists objectification and mastery”—that is, the sacrality of the secular (Onishi...
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |