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It is by now well known that the modern category of religion has evolved as part of a certain trajectory of Western history. Among its many aspects, this trajectory is about how religion became part of a definitive relationship with the category of the secular – a relationship that implies an understanding of religion as something distinct – and ideally separate – from other categories such as science, politics, and law. The place of the category of religion as part of this semantic as well as institutional landscape of separations makes it relevant to probe the possible consequences for sociology, if we are, as some scholars have argued, living in contexts which are increasingly post-secular. What happens, then, to the object – as well as the self-identity – of the study of religion? This article discusses some of the possible epistemological shifts inherent in the idea of a movement from secular to post-secular and it will reflect upon the possible avenues they open up for the sociological study of religion.

'Hate, Politics, Law' offers a critical exploration and assessment of the basic assumptions, ideals, and agendas behind the modern fight against hate. The essays in this volume explore these issues and provide a range of explanatory and normative perspectives on the awkward relationship between hate and liberal democracy

This article investigates feelings of (un)safety emerging from knowing and sharing knowledge about hate crime and hate incidents. Drawing on fieldwork and interviews with young Muslims living in the greater Copenhagen area, the article explores the way the interlocutors seek to make sense of their experiences through available epistemic categories, and how this sense-making is shaped by reactions from the surrounding society, e.g., whether it is questioned, supported, ignored etc. Combining criminological and psychological research on direct and indirect harms of hate crime with insights from philosophy on epistemic encounters and their ethical implications the article provides a framework for investigating safety in epistemic interactions. Based on this framework, the article show the often hard work that people perform in order to balance epistemic needs (e.g. the need for knowledge and for recognition) with epistemic risks (e.g. the risk of testimonial rejection, of damaged epistemic confidence, or loss of credibility).

Misbrugsbehandling med lægeordineret heroin er et nyt behandlingstiltag i Danmark. Denne artikel behandler den vanskelige transformation af heroin fra ulovligt gadestof til ordineret medicin gennem en analyse af den rumlige indretning af en af de fem nyetablerede heroinklinikker i Danmark. Artiklen viser, hvordan man i klinikken forsøger at konstituere heroinen som medicin ved, gennem rumlig afgræsning og kontrol, at adskille heroinen fra den gadekultur, den samtidig er [før har været] en del af, og fra den nydelse, som brugerne stræber efter. Analysen viser dog også, at heroinens andre fremtrædelsesformer – som social tabu, som ulovligt stof og som skaber af nydelse – kontinuerligt trænger sig på både i personalets idealer og i brugernes adfærd: i deres rus og i deres måde at indtage klinikkens rum. Heroinen må således forstås som et 'messy object', hvis flertydighed gør klinikkens rum uundgåeligt modsætningsfyldte.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on bloomsburycollections.com Taking its cue from the study of 'lived religion', Secular Bodies, Affects and Emotions shows how the idea of a secular public is equally marked by a display and cultivation of affect and emotions. Whereas it is widely agreed that religion is often saturated by emotion, the secular is usually treated as a neutral background serving as the domain of public, rational deliberation. This book demonstrates that secularity and secularism are also upheld by bodily practices and emotional attachments. Drawing on empirical case studies, this is the first book to ask and explore whether a secular body exists. Building on the work of Talal Asad, the book argues that the secular is not an absence of religion, but a positive entity that comes about through its co-constitutive relationship with religion. And, once we attune ourselves to recognizing its operations as grammar which structures social practice, writing an anthropology of the secular could become a new possibility.