![If Not Secular, then What? Reflections on an Islamic Dialectic](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Heaven-and-Earth-600x450.jpeg)
The idea of the modern secular presupposes the existence of a holistic premodern world in which the amorphous phenomenon of religion penetrated all realms of life. But the existence of an Islamic distinction between the religious and non-religious domains suggests otherwise: not a latent secularity, but rather a difference of an altogether different kind. But if it is not equivalent to the “secular,” then what is it?
![Sympathy](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/foucault-600x450.png)
For political theology, we might find ourselves compelled by practices that seek to connect us with our ecologies, our communities, and our relations with ourselves – in ways that are more about humility and provisionality than finding cures or solutions.
![Book Review – Clayton Crockett, Deleuze Beyond Badiou](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Deleuze-beyond-Badiou.jpg)
Clayton Crockett’s Deleuze Beyond Badiou is more than a commentary on Badiou’s reading of Deleuze or a defense of Deleuze. It is, rather, a transdisciplinary work that crosses the domains of theology, philosophy, and politics through a reading of the relationship between Deleuze and Badiou. Crockett’s goal, however, is not primarily descriptive but constructive, in that he uses the relationship between the two philosophers as a means for thinking otherwise.