The invention of "religions" in the modern discursive form is also the invention of the secular state and the modern…
Religion is not a standalone category
secularization
Resistance, critique, religion
Justin Neuman's stimulating last post encouraged me to reread the debate asking "Is Critique Secular?"from the beginning, and in doing so I…
Turkey’s coup by court
Running like a geological fault beneath Turkey is a long-standing split between the popularly elected government and the state. The…
Beyond the headscarf
Last March, the Chief Public Prosecutor of Turkey's High Court of Appeals opened a closure case against the ruling Justice…
The headscarf and citizenship in Turkey
In Turkey, the headscarf is usually taken as an emblem of tradition and backwardness, and its removal from public life…
Religious reasons & secular revelations
That Jürgen Habermas and I probably agree on most fundamental issues does not mean that there are no differences between…
Cosmopolitanism and the ideal of postsecular public reason
Cosmopolitanism is not realistically imaginable as the transcendence of all forms of belonging. To propose a leap into traditionless secular…
De-transcendentalizing the secular
How one answers the question “Is critique secular?” determines substantially how one engages with secularism, how one comes to defend…
Our historical Sonderweg
My thanks to all those who have taken the time to respond to The Stillborn God, with sharper comments than…
How religion gets mixed with violence
Violence has been accepted, then, by jihadis, warriors defending Islam, as a necessary step in creating a purer Islamic society.…