ABSTRACT
This article presents some features, potentials, limitations, and bibliographies of the intersection of postcolonialism, postsecularism, and literary studies. It examines literatures, cultures, religions, indigenous beliefs and practices, and political imaginaries from Africa, Europe, and South Asia. The religions discussed include Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Sikhism. The article shows how the institutional and discursive emergence of postcolonial postsecularism, including its intersection with literary studies, can draw lessons from similarly contestatory fields of study, such as postcolonial theory, postcolonial feminism, and intersectional feminism. The article includes bibliographies of literary works that address secularism and postsecularism, including their intersection with postcoloniality.
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The author thanks Rajeswari Sunder Rajan and Roseann Runte for their feedback on drafts of this article; and Alex Prosi and Mohammed Mansoor Ilahi for their editorial support.
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1 As a necessarily limited sample of studies that examine secularism, aesthetics, and literature in combination with one another, see: Allan (Citation2013), Asad (Citation1990), Chambers and Herbert (Citation2015), During (Citation2002), Fessenden (Citation2007), Franke (Citation2015), Göknar (Citation2013), González (Citation2018), Haque (Citation2019), Jager (Citation2007, Citation2015), Jussawalla (Citation1996), Kahn (Citation2009), Kaufmann (Citation2007), Kimmel (Citation2013), Kumar (Citation2008), Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy (Citation1988), Lebovic (Citation2008), Lecourt (Citation2018), Mahmood (Citation2013), Masuzawa (Citation2013), McNamara (Citation2015, Citation2017, Citation2018), Mirmotahari (Citation2022), Mondal (Citation2013), Mufti (Citation2004), Mutter (Citation2017), Neuman (Citation2014), New and Reedy (Citation2012), Pecora (Citation2015), Pollock (Citation2006), Raz-Krakotzkin (Citation2013), Said (Citation1984), Schachter (Citation2013), Seidel (Citation2021), Sen (Citation2013), Singh (Citation2006), Srivastava (Citation2008), Stein (Citation2013), Stein and Murison (Citation2010), Taylor (Citation1989), Taylor, Jager, and Mahmood (Citation2006), Viswanathan (Citation1998, Citation2008), Ziolkowski (Citation2007).
2 There is a tremendous diversity of scholarship combining postsecularism and literary studies across genres, national literatures, languages, time periods, regions of the west and the Global South, and across varieties of scholarly output (including dissertations, journal special issues, journal forums, edited books and collections, and monographs). As a necessarily limited sample of these studies, see: Abeysekara (Citation2008), Abram (Citation2010), Abrams (Citation1973), Ali et al. (Citation2022), Anidjar (Citation2006), Anzaldúa (Citation2002), Asad (Citation2003), Ashcroft (Citation2009), Ashcroft et al. (Citation2005, Citation2009), Baird (Citation2000), Bauman (Citation1992), Beck (Citation2010), Beckford (Citation2012), Berger (Citation1999), Bloom (Citation1989), Bowyer (Citation2020), Braidotti (Citation2008), Branch (Citation2006, Citation2014, Citation2016), Branch and Knight (Citation2018), Carruthers (Citation2011), Carruthers and Tate (Citation2010), Casanova (Citation1994), Christie (Citation2013), Connolly (Citation1999), Conway and Harol (Citation2015), Corrigan (Citation2015a, Citation2015b), Coviello and Hickman (Citation2014), Cumpsty (Citation2017, Citation2021, Citation2022, Citation2023), Dalferth (Citation2010), De Capitani (Citation2022), Derrida (Citation1998), Diamond (Citation2004), Di Tullio (Citation2018), Donoghue (Citation2001), Dressler and Mandair (Citation2011), Dudley (Citation2017), Dunn (Citation2010), During (Citation2005, Citation2010), El Amrani (Citation2022), Elie (Citation2012), Esty-Burtt (Citation2021), Faber (Citation2009), Fessenden (Citation2014), Finkelstein (Citation2010), Franke (Citation2009, Citation2015), Franklin (Citation2008), Friedman (Citation2021), Frohlich (Citation2007), Ganguly (Citation2006), Garcia-Donoso (Citation2018), Genzale (Citation2021), Goh (Citation2014), Gorski et al. (Citation2012), Graham (Citation2012), Grall (Citation2020), Grosu-Rădulescu (Citation2021), Habermas (Citation2008, Citation2010), Hadden (Citation1987), Halpern (Citation2003), Hamner (Citation2009), Hadot (Citation1995), Haque (Citation2014), Harris-Birtill (Citation2019), Haught (Citation1986), Hodkinson and Horstkotte (Citation2020), Huggan (Citation2010), Hungerford (Citation2010), Jackson and Surh-Sytsma (Citation2017), Jacobsen and Jacobsen (Citation2008), James (Citation1994), Jarman (Citation1998), Jarzyńska (Citation2017, Citation2020), Johnston (Citation2002), Jones (Citation2007, Citation2018), Jussawalla (Citation2022), Jussawalla and Omran (Citation2021), Kaufmann (Citation2009), Kerrigan (Citation2018), King (Citation2005, Citation2009), Knight (Citation2009), Kyrlezhev (Citation2008), Ladin (Citation2000), Laird (Citation2011), Lane (Citation1998), Lee (Citation2022), Levitt (Citation2009), Ludwig (Citation2009, Citation2018), Mączyńska (Citation2009), Mahmood (Citation2005, Citation2013), Mandair (Citation2009, Citation2018), Marty (Citation1998), McClure (Citation1995, Citation2007), McLennan (Citation2010), Mehta (Citation2020), Merlini (Citation2011), Mitek-Dziemba (Citation2018a, Citation2018b), Mohamed (Citation2011), Morozov (Citation2008), Morrissey (Citation2009), Mufti (Citation2013), Ni (Citation2015, Citation2016), Norris and Inglehart (Citation2011), Nowak and Obirek (Citation2021), Obirek (Citation2018, Citation2019, Citation2022), Opengart (Citation2003), Paranjape (Citation2009), Pecora (Citation2018), Pospíšil (Citation2018, Citation2019), Qadiri (Citation2014, Citation2018, Citation2022), Ratti (Citation2013, Citation2014, Citation2015, Citation2018a, Citation2018b, Citation2019, Citation2021), Richardson Duke (Citation2021), Rivera (Citation2021), Roberts (Citation2008), Roupakia and Sideri (Citation2021), Rosati and Stoeckl (Citation2012), Saikumar (Citation2015, Citation2022b), Schneiders (Citation2003), Schwartz (Citation1997), Skórczewski (Citation2020), Smith (Citation2014), Smith (Citation2015), Sobhani (Citation2014, Citation2015), Solle (Citation2001), Sorvari (Citation2016), Sosnowska and Drzewiecka (Citation2018), Steiner (Citation2021), Stoeckl (Citation2012), Tacey (Citation2019), Tate (Citation2018), Tausch and Obirek (Citation2020), Taylor (Citation2007, Citation2011), Thakur (Citation2021), Watt (Citation2009), VanBladel (Citation2019a, Citation2019b), Vendler (Citation1995), Vizcaíno (Citation2020, Citation2022), Walker (Citation1998a, Citation1998b, Citation2005), Wasserstrom (Citation1999), Werner and Wiehl (Citation2021), Wolfe (Citation2013), Wood (Citation2000), Wuthnow (Citation1988, Citation1998), Zheng (Citation2018), Ziser (Citation2010), Žižek (Citation1999), Ziolkowski (Citation2007). Some of the references in this list have been drawn from Corrigan (Citation2015a).
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