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Trauma, Dislocation, and Lived Fear in the Postsecular World: Towards a First Methodological Checklist

This paper is a response to isolated but increasingly frequent efforts within the International Relations profession to approach questions of a postsecular world. However, such approaches are based on certain assumptions, chiefly that a mode of reasoning analogous to that of Critical thought can be transposed to the study of religions and spirituality; and that high normative thought is embedded in all religious thought. This paper cautions against such assumptions, and sets out a series of indicative pitfalls in what may become an ill-considered rush to enter the postsecular without proper textual and cultural appreciations; and particularly in thrall to the temptation that all religious thought can be considered as some kind of homogenous world ripe for selective and unjustified pillaging.