Introduction to the Review Symposium - Decolonizations

Cleaving Gestures that Refuse the Alien Call for Identity Politics

Authors

  • Balbinder Bhogal Hofstra University Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/rosa.v4i2.135

Keywords:

Arvind-Pal S. Mandair, identity politics, language, monotheolingualism, postcolonialism, religion, Sikhism

Abstract

Here follows a general introduction to this special issue of RoSA, which takes the form of a Review Forum discussing Arvind-Pal S. Mandair’s Religion and the Specter of the West: Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and the Politics of Translation (hereafter RSW), published in 2009 by Columbia University Press.

Author Biography

  • Balbinder Bhogal, Hofstra University

    Balbinder S. Bhogal’s research interests include postcolonial and diasporic hermeneutics; theory and method in the study of religions (especially the conceptualization of the religion-secular binary); Indian Philosophy’s relation to Continental Philosophy, as well as the discourse of mysticism and its critique of modern subjectivity. Recent publications include: ‘The Animal Sublime: Rethinking the Sikh Mystical Body’, Journal of the American Academy of Religion (forthcoming); ‘Subject to Interpretation: Philosophical Messengers and Poetic Reticence in Sikh Textuality’, SOPHIA: International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysical Theology and Ethics (forthcoming); ‘Monopolizing Violence before and after 1984: Governmental Law and the People’s Passion’, Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory 7.1 (April 2011): 57–82.

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2012-01-20

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Bhogal, B. (2012). Introduction to the Review Symposium - Decolonizations: Cleaving Gestures that Refuse the Alien Call for Identity Politics. Religions of South Asia, 4(2), 135-164. https://doi.org/10.1558/rosa.v4i2.135