摘要：OFFERING WHAT HE DESCRIBESas an "anthropology of secularism"1akin to an anthropology of religion, Talal Asad (CUNY) grapples with some of the most important questions in domestic politics: viz., if the "doctrine" of secularism that has governed public discourse in modern democracies rests upon Enlightenment principles that are rightly jettisoned, how should we reconfigure the space for religion in the public sphere. If secularism operates on the basis of a flawed epistemological notion of autonomous, universal rationality, then is it even possible to have a "public" discourse. Would we be left with only the cacophony of tribalisms. Or is there a way of retaining secularity without secularism.2Is it a matter of being post-secular, or rather post-secularist
