In a talk prepared last year for a symposium on the life and work of his father, the anthropologist Talal Asad lays…
Muhammad Asad and the concept of an Islamic politics
enchantment
Modern enchantment
Recently released by Oxford University Press, Michael Saler's latest volume explores the imaginary realms of the modern world.
The sun shone fiercely through the window at Starbucks (Part II)
Soon after reading Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age, I turned to Courtney Bender’s The New Metaphysicals. It is…
The sun shone fiercely through the window at Starbucks (Part I)
Let us recognize, from the outset, the delicious perversity of inviting comments upon comments about the comments about Charles Taylor’s…
Understanding disenchantment
Jane Bennett’s sympathetic yet critical commentary on my essay "What is Enchantment?" (published in the volume Varieties of Secularism in…
On the call from outside
In Akeel Bilgrami’s contribution to Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age, "enchantment" refers to the historical belief that God…