The Subject of Religion
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That religion is in one sense a single subject, is attested by the use of the term to encompass a diversity of particular religions, as cultic and moral religious systems. Yet it appears as a structural requirement of every particular religion that, in the end, it disqualifies the claim of each other religion to constituting “true religion” or to providing “truth in religion.” In terms broached by Jacques Derrida, it can be seen that the vocation to truth which every religion as such must claim, is part of a vocation to faith in the holy, understood as life preserved unscathed. However, Derrida identifies several hesitations within the concept of religion. These can be harnessed to a distinction, between religion as a general subject and the instantiations of that subject met in particular religions, to demonstrate each necessarily particular religion, as also each worshipper, as a subject-in-loss, deconstructed in view of the irreconcilability of opposing exigencies, and structurally oriented to allowing the holy other’s full sacrificial incursion, in a religion yet to come.
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That religion is in one sense a single subject, is attested by the use of the term to encompass a diversity of particular religions, as cultic and moral religious systems. Yet it appears as a structural requirement of every particular religion that, in the end, it disqualifies the claim of each other religion to constituting “true religion” or to providing “truth in religion.” In terms broached by Jacques Derrida, it can be seen that the vocation to truth which every religion as such must claim, is part of a vocation to faith in the holy, understood as life preserved unscathed. However, Derrida identifies several hesitations within the concept of religion. These can be harnessed to a distinction, between religion as a general subject and the instantiations of that subject met in particular religions, to demonstrate each necessarily particular religion, as also each worshipper, as a subject-in-loss, deconstructed in view of the irreconcilability of opposing exigencies, and structurally oriented to allowing the holy other’s full sacrificial incursion, in a religion yet to come.
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