The Nonexistent Religion, the Unimaginable Religious Freedom A Study of Religious Freedom Politics and An Imagination of the Post-secular Futurity
The research project contains three aspects: an interpretation of the legal configuration of “religion,” a political inquiry into the viability of religious freedom in the global context, and an ethical reimagination of religious pluralism that presumes and reinforces our secularist ideals. By stripping away the glamorous façade of religious freedom and by distinguishing the legal term from our intuitive understanding, the project sets out to initiate an imagination of post-secular futurity. The realization of a freer, more inclusive, and understanding society perhaps requires a deconstruction of the very concept and a search for the current politically unimaginable.