Byrd, Dustin: Islam in a Post-Secular Society : Religion, Secularity and the Antagonism of Recalcitrant Faith. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016
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Islam in a Post-Secular Society: Religion, Secularity and the Antagonism of Recalcitrant Faith
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Professing Islam in a Post-Secular Society
Introduction
On the Contemporary Possibility of Witnessing and Professing
The Post-Secular Society
What Does It Mean to Profess Islam?
Witnessing in Islam: On the Tradition of Radical Praxis
New Religion as Return of the Old
Witnessing in the Time of War
“Perfected Religion”: A Problematic Conception
Fear of Philosophical Blasphemy
2 Adversity in Post-Secular Europe
The Dialectics of Martyrdom: Death as Witnessing and Professing
Witnessing against Islam: The Case of Theo van Gogh
Je ne suis pas Charlie et je ne suis pas avec les terroristes
3 Finding a Common Language
13th Century Witnessing: Saint Francis of Assisi and Sultan Malik al-Kamil
Different Francis, Same Mission: Witnessing with and for Muslims
Translation Proviso: Can We Witness and Confess in the Same Language?
Cognitive-Instrumental Reason, Moral-Practical Reason and Aesthetic-Expressive Reason in Religion
Translation Dangers
Secular Entrenchment
4 Witnessing and Professing in Prophetic and Positive Religions
Affirmation and Negativity: Marx
Affirmation and Negativity: Lenin
Affirmation and Negativity: Horkheimer and Adorno
Confronting the Post-Secular Condition
Prophetic and Priestly Religion
5 After Auschwitz: Islam in Europe
Violence and the Post-Secular
Violence and the State
Freud’s Unbehagen mit Marx
Witnessing and Professing in a Nietzschian Age of Nihilism
Witnessing and Professing after Auschwitz: Theodor Adorno’s Poetics
History and Metaphysics after Auschwitz
Ethics after Auschwitz
Witnessing the Messianic: The Case of the Martyr Walter Benjamin
The Place for Theology
Messiah, Messianic and the Historian
Benjamin’s Critique of Progress: Witnessing History as Barbarity
6 Post-Secularity and Its Discontents: The Barbaric Revolt against Barbarism
Absolutivity
Authoritarian Absolutes, Heteronomy, and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria
Humanistic Absolutes
ISIS: Same Problem, Different Manifestation
American and Euro-Jihādis
Hegel, War and Individualism
ISIS and Western Alienation
Internationalism
Seeking Heaven at the Barrel of a Gun
Material Poverty or Poverty of Being?
Genealogy of Terror
Symbolic Message
Reign of Terror: Bourgeois and Muslim
The Perverse Dialectic of Apology
Hypocritical Apologetics and the Recovery of the Prophetic
7 The Globalized Post-Secular Society and the Future of Islam
From the West to the Rest
Theocracy as a Response to the Globalized Post-Secular Society
Post-Secular Solidarity: A Proposal for an Intra-religious Constitutionalism
Ecumenism and Inter-Religious Constitution Building: Modern Slavery
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index