Notes
Hent de Vries and Lawrence E. Sullivan, Preface
- Joseph Stiglitz,Globalization and Its Discontents(New York: W. W. Norton, 2002), 224–25.
- Harlan Cleveland and Mark Luyckx, ‘‘Civilizations and Governance,’’ background paper
for the World Academy of Art and Science and EU Forward Studies Unit Joint Seminar, European
Commission, April 1998, 9. - See Robert J. Barro and Rachel M. McCleary, ‘‘Religion and Economic Growth,’’ National
Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 9682 (http://www.nber.org/papers/w9682). - In retrospect, the project also prepared the ground for an even more ambitious interdisci-
plinary research program, entitled The Future of the Religious Past: Elements and Forms for the
Twenty-first Century and funded with a generous grant of more than five million euros by the
NWO Research Council for the Humanities (GW), the NWO Research Council for the Social Sci-
ences (MaGW), and the Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research
(WOTRO). The new program has intensified the rhythm of international exchanges started by the
earlier collaboration. Assisted by its international advisory board, chaired by Professor Veena Das
of The Johns Hopkins University, the program committee of The Future of the Religious Past,
chaired by Hent de Vries, has now selected some thirteen projects of teams of researchers. Their
most representative and challenging results, in conjunction with essays by internationally celebrated
scholars, will be published in a series of five volumes under contract with Fordham University Press.
The first of these is scheduled for publication in the fall of 2007.
Hent de Vries, Introduction: Before, Around, and Beyond the Theologico-Political
- For the necessary cautions when speaking of ‘‘religion,’’ see Tomoko Masuzawa,In Search
of Dreamtime: The Quest for the Origin of Religion(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993),
and idem,The Invention of World Religions: Or, How European Universalism Was Preserved in the
Language of Pluralism(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005). See also Etienne Balibar, ‘‘Note
sur l’origine et les usages du terme ‘monothe ́isme,’ inDieu, special issue ofCritique, no. 704–5
(2006): 19–45. - ‘‘Vivre ‘ensemble’—Living ‘Together’ ’’ is the title of the talk Jacques Derrida delivered at
the conference entitled Irreconcilable Differences? Jacques Derrida and the Question of Religion,
held at the University of California, Santa Barbara, on October 23–25, 2003. This was to be his last
visit to the United States. He sought a new figure beyond any appeal to a quasi-biological notion of
life and filiation, indeed, beyond even the human or humanity, or of the living restrictively defined. - Hans Joas,Braucht der Mensch Religion? U ̈ber Erfahrungen der Selbsttranszendenz(Freiburg
im Breisgau: Herder, 2004), 124.
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