An interdisciplinary journal of transnational cultural studies

• Doxa at Large

  Opinion essays on current events

  Iran, in Search of a Nonsecular and Nontheocratic Politics

  The Iranian revolution of 1978–79 was the culmination of a gradual rejection of the shah’s domestic policies — including his authoritarian secularism — and of foreign, especially American, influence in Iran. Revolutionaries of different persuasions, who might be labeled secular, religious, or neither — our categories fail us here — all opposed the shah’s state-imposed secularization and modernization.

  • by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
  • in Volume 22, Number 1

• Articles

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  Coming Home: Religion, Mass Violence, and the Exiled and Secret Selves of a Citizen-Killer

  The violence that erupted when British India was partitioned into India and Pakistan killed at least a million people. Yet there were no criminal inquiries, arrests, court cases, or convictions associated with the killings, rapes, mutilations, arson, and pillage.

  • by Ashis Nandy
  • in Volume 22, Number 1

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