Chasing the Secular

Abstract How can we engage the secular in ways that encourage empirical investigations of its specific and embodied expressions? Locating particular places situations invites scholar to recognize it, say “there it is.” However, seems difficult pin down precisely: quickly expands into everything is not considered religion a given context, distinctively evaporate nothing. This article explores slipperiness secular, merely as conceptual obstacle, but something emerges from way fundamentally constituted upon absence rather than any forms presence. It probes what kind spatial, material, presence such might have, suggests an answer this question may provide us with methodological out slipperiness.