Secular Writing
Volume 39, Number 5
July-August 2018
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Ranjan Ghosh’s Introduction to Focus: What Secular?
Vincent P. Pecora’s “The Secular, the Post-Secular, and the Literary”
Clayton Crockett’s “What is Postsecularism?”
Bradley B. Onishi’s “Witness:The Sacrality of Secular Writing”
Carl Raschke reviews Wendy Brown’s Undoing the Demos
Jeffrey W. Robbins’s “The Secular as a Spiritual Worldiness”
Michael Marder’s “The Writing Dump”
Akeel Bilgrami “Secularism: A Genealogical Analysis”
Tabish Khair’s “Secularism is Inseparable from Religion”
Sumana Roy’s “Amit Chaudhuri and the Unconstitutional Secular”
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