This somewhat rangy paragraph, from the newer piece by Saba Mahmood I'm using in "Theorizing Religion" this year, speaks to many issues I think I'll be working through in the coming semester - not just in "Theorizing" but in my sophomore tutorial, "Lives of Contemplation."
Saba Mahmood, "Religious Reason and Secular Affect: An Incommensurable Divide?"
in Is Critique Secular?, ed. Talal Asad, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler and Saba Mahmood
(NY: Fordham University Press, 2013), 58-94, 83
