Abstract
The postcolonial (anthropological) thinking about the relation/opposition between religion and politics, peace and violence rests on the sovereign law of ‘decision’. This postcolonial thinking is a necessary thinking about the question of what constitutes secular life/politics. The postcolonial thinking about politics is then as much decisive as it is critical in that it must always decide to separate (secular) life from violence. In a detailed reading of a historicist postcolonial text, I argue that once the possibility of decision is unavailable to the postcolonial sense of secular politics, the seeming relation/opposition between violence and life also becomes unavailable. It is where we have no recourse to such sovereign decision that a different postcolonial thinking (and writing) about ‘politics’ may have a chance.
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