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In this volume, four leading thinkers of our times confront the paradoxes and dilemmas attending the supposed stand-off between Islam and liberal democratic values. Taking the controversial Danish cartoons of Mohammad as a point of departure, Talal Asad, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, and Saba Mahmood inquire into the evaluative frameworks at stake in understanding the conflicts between blasphemy and free speech, between religious taboos and freedoms of thought and expression, and between secular and religious world views. Is the language of the law an adequate mechanism for the adjudication of such conflicts? What other modes of discourse are available for the navigation of such differences in multicultural and multi-religious societies? What is the role of critique in such an enterprise? These are among the pressing questions this volume addresses.

What is the relevance of Europeanist ethnography for anthropological theory generally? Considering a region usually regarded as the source rather than an object of anthropology and colonialism alike, seven anthropologists reflexively address, inter alia, the implications of studying spaces already deeply explored by other disciplines, the potential of economic history to defamiliarize Eurocentric models and of recent events to illuminate such concepts as state and market, the meaning of "West" as a specific locus of power and reification, the limits of the "local" as the focus of ethnography, and the tensions among politically and culturally disparate entities within emergent ideologies of cultural unity.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Historical Anthropology and Its Vicissitudes -- Part 1 Ethnography and the Archive -- Annals of the Archive: Ethnographic Notes on the Sources of History -- Ethnographic Representation, Statistics, and Modern Power -- 2 Colonial Anxieties -- New Christians and New World Fears in Seventeenth- Century Peru -- The Kabyle Myth: Colonization and the Production of Ethnicity -- Developing Historical Negatives: Race and the (Modernist) Visions of a Colonial State -- 3 Marginal Contexts -- Culture on the Edges: Caribbean Creolization in Historical Context -- Race, Gender, and Historical Narrative in the Reconstruction of a Nation: Remembering and Forgetting the American Civil War -- 4 Archaeologies of the Fantastic -- Fantastic Community -- Occult Economies and the Violence of Abstraction: Notes from the South African Postcolony -- Contributors -- Index

4e de couv.: Après l'affaire des " caricatures danoises " en 2005, maintes fois reprises dans la presse européenne, et notamment dans le journal français Charlie Hebdo, quatre universitaires américains, Talal Asad, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler et Saba Mahmood, se sont réunis pour discuter de la place, de la définition et de la perception de la religion et de la laïcité dans la pensée critique et dans nos sociétés. Parmi les questions soulevées, ils se sont demandé si toute entreprise critique ne peut se concevoir que dans un contexte laïc et, inversement, si la laïcité ne peut advenir que grâce au travail critique. Analysant les présupposés et amalgames à l'oeuvre dans les discours sur un prétendu conflit des valeurs, ils questionnent ainsi les représentations occidentales de la croyance et de la rationalité et les cadres normatifs qui les prédisposent. Les interrogations et les objections successives de ces intellectuels aux horizons d'étude divers permettent de repenser les oppositions conventionnelles entre Occident et Islam, liberté d'expression et censure, jugement et violence, raison et préjugé. Dans un style dialogique devenu rare, comme le note Mathieu Potte-Bonneville dans sa préface, les contributeurs font eux-mêmes oeuvre de critique et s'efforcent de s'écouter et de se répondre pour faire entendre une autre polyphonie, pour mettre en relation divers langages culturels et s'interroger sur leurs traductions réciproques

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: The Anthropological Skepticism of Talal Asad -- 2 Secularization Revisited: A Reply to Talal Asad -- 3 What Is an ''Authorizing Discourse"? -- 4 Fasting for Bin Laden: The Politics of Secularization in Contemporary India -- 5 Europe: A Minor Tradition -- 6 Secularism and the Argument from Nature -- 7 On General and Divine Economy: Talal Asad's Genealogy of the Secular and Emmanuel Levinas's Critique of Capitalism, Colonialism, and Money -- 8 The Tragic Sensibility ofTalal Asad -- 9 Redemption, Secularization, and Politics -- 10 Subjects and Agents in the History of Imperialism and Resistance -- 11 Responses -- Appendix: The Trouble ofThinking: An Interview with Tala! Asad -- Notes -- Tala! Asad: A Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Moral State: Religion, Nation, and Empire in Victorian Britain and British India -- 3. Protestantism and British National Identity, 1815-1945 -- 4. Race in Britain and India -- 5. History, the Nation, and Religion: The Transformations of the Dutch Religious Past -- 6. On Religious and Linguistic Nationalisms: The Second Partition of Bengal -- 7. Nationalism, Modernity, and Muslim Identity in India before 1947 -- 8. Memory, Mourning, and National Morality: Yasukuni Shrine and the Reunion of State and Religion in Postwar Japan -- 9. Papists and Beggars: National Festivals and Nation Building in the Netherlands during the Nineteenth Century -- 10. Religion, Nation-State, Secularism -- 11. The Goodness of Nations -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index

Comprised of twenty-seven interviews with leading researchers, intellectuals, artists, and activists, Critical Voices explores the ways in which power and popular mobilizations manifest in the contemporary region, as well as the representation of key dynamics, experiences, and figures. Through their own unique perspectives and possibilities, the interviewees and interviewers challenge the ways in which the region is studied, discussed, and represented. - Contributors: Awad Abdel Fattah, Sarah Al Abdali, Talal Asad, George Azar, Asli Bali, Nar Photos Collective, Angela Davis, Wael Gamal, Justin Gengler, Nigel Gibson, Nile Green, Ahmad Habib, Bassam Haddad, David Harvey, Jim House, Sonallah Ibrahim, Matan Kaminer, Leila Khaled, Nancy Kricorian, Driss Ksikes, Haytham Manna', Nabeel Rajab, Eastern Province Revolution, Ella Shohat, Zaid Shuaibi, Tariq Tell