RelSec Keywords
The Religion, Secularism, and Political Belonging (RelSec) project linked five humanities centers—at The University of Arizona, Portland State University, Utrecht University, Tel Aviv University, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong—through a mutually coordinated set of research programs. One of their main projects—soon to be assembled into a volume by Duke University Press—was a series of lexical entries or keywords. This collection includes participant Leerom Medevoi’s introduction along with 5 individual entries: “Nationalism,” “Fundamentalism,” “Civil Religion,” “Faith,” and “Science.”
Keyword: Fundamentalism
In the spirit of genealogical inquiry, this essay aims to ask not what is the truth of fundamentalism, but instead what work is performed by the truth claims about it. Why fundamentalism?
Keyword: Nationalism
The supposed neutrality of nationalism with regards to religious matters, and the belief that nationalism constituted ‘progress’ over and against other forms of political organization, has deep and deeply problematic roots with Western expansionism and colonialism.