This book explores how contemporary approaches to the meaning of time and history follow patterns that are simultaneously political and theological. Even after

This book explores how contemporary approaches to the meaning of time and history follow patterns that are simultaneously political and theological. Even after

The book argues that religion is a system of significant meanings that have an impact on other systems and spheres of social life, including cultural memory. Th

Ananda Abeysekara contends that democracy, along with its cherished secular norms, is founded on the idea of a promise deferred to the future. Rooted in democra

The re-emergence of the religious in secular domains has led prominent scholars such as Jürgen Habermas and Charles Taylor to speculate about a new ‘postsecu