On Diaspora

by Barber, Daniel Colucciello

• ISBN13: 9781608994007
• ISBN10: 1608994007
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-11-01
• Publisher: Cascade Books

Summary

A great deal of attention has been given over the past several years to the question: What is secularism? In On Diaspora, Daniel Barber provides an intervention into this debate by arguing that a theory of secularism cannot be divorced from theories of religion, Christianity, and even being. Accordingly, Barber's argument ranges across matters proper to philosophy, religious studies, cultural studies, theology, and anthropology It is able to do so in a coherent manner as a result of its overarching concern with the concept of diaspora, it is the concept of diaspora, Barber argues, that allows us to think in genuinely novel ways about the relationship between particularity and universality, and as a consequence about Christianity, religion, and secularism. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Daniel Colucciello Barber Religious Studies at Marymount Manhattan College, in New York City.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
Immanence: Namelessness and the Production of Signification	p. 1
Diaspora	p. 30
The World in the Wake of Pauline Thought	p. 62
Christianity, Religion, and the Secular	p. 88
The Differentiality of Differentialities	p. 115
Epilogue	p. 146
Bibliography	p. 149
Index	p. 153
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