عنوان

A Disorder of Identity:

شماره

LA110722

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

A Disorder of Identity:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

Religious Difference 'without' 'Religion'

نام نخستين پديدآور

Marius van Hoogstraten

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

Responding to Paul Hedges' paper earlier in this volume, I discuss the consequences of the deconstruction of 'religion' for the 'interreligious.' First, I bring Paul Hedges' 'soft' deconstruction into conversation with John Thatamanil's comparative theology 'after' religion. While the former argues that religion, while always contextually situated, clearly still has 'reality', Thatamanil rather argues that the social reality of those practices and collectivities dubbed 'religions' is much more blurry and difficult than what the discourse on religion assumes. Far from a purely academic endeavour, taking seriously the deconstruction of 'religion' means taking seriously the violent history that has taken place under its name. Then I argue, drawing on John Caputo's 'religion without religion', that instead of relying on fictions of solid or 'pure' foundations, of 'religions' as clearly delineated representative systems, interreligious engagement ought to embrace this blurring of boundaries and the inherent instability of their languages. Finally, however, I propose that Caputo as well as Hedges leave uninterrogated the underlying assumption that 'religion' precedes 'religious difference'. Rather than finding some definition of 'religion' to understand or define religious difference, it may be necessary to trace how religious difference is employed to understand and define 'religions', most significantly how some collectivities and practices come to be defined as 'other religions'. Responding to Paul Hedges' paper earlier in this volume, I discuss the consequences of the deconstruction of 'religion' for the 'interreligious.' First, I bring Paul Hedges' 'soft' deconstruction into conversation with John Thatamanil's comparative theology 'after' religion. While the former argues that religion, while always contextually situated, clearly still has 'reality', Thatamanil rather argues that the social reality of those practices and collectivities dubbed 'religions' is much more blurry and difficult than what the discourse on religion assumes. Far from a purely academic endeavour, taking seriously the deconstruction of 'religion' means taking seriously the violent history that has taken place under its name. Then I argue, drawing on John Caputo's 'religion without religion', that instead of relying on fictions of solid or 'pure' foundations, of 'religions' as clearly delineated representative systems, interreligious engagement ought to embrace this blurring of boundaries and the inherent instability of their languages. Finally, however, I propose that Caputo as well as Hedges leave uninterrogated the underlying assumption that 'religion' precedes 'religious difference'. Rather than finding some definition of 'religion' to understand or define religious difference, it may be necessary to trace how religious difference is employed to understand and define 'religions', most significantly how some collectivities and practices come to be defined as 'other religions'.

تاريخ نشر

2018

توصيف ظاهري

25-38

عنوان

Exchange

شماره جلد

47/1

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1572-543X

اصطلاح موضوعی

deconstruction

اصطلاح موضوعی

interreligious studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

Jacques Derrida

اصطلاح موضوعی

John Caputo

اصطلاح موضوعی

religion

اصطلاح موضوعی

religious difference

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Marius van Hoogstraten

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/1572543X-12341472

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y