Resumen de Introduction. Religious Selves, Secular Selves

Mark Larrimore

• Recent scholarship has taken us beyond the simplistic framework of the self in or outside world religions. It has deepened, historicized, and pluralized our sense of selves between and within cultures, and shown us that selves�especially perhaps the "self-made"�are narrated and performed intersubjectively and politically. Scholars have questioned the ways in which selves are built, unbuilt, and rebuilt in traditions secular as well as religious, and have explored the ways in which multiple modernities and the effects of globalization have led to the concretization of new subjectivities�including new religious ones. This paper frames the following discussion by positing that secularity is no simple or stable thing, and that secular selves are also narrated and performed