ABSTRACT
This chapter depicts how believers situate themselves in between the demands of the religious and secular worlds that they simultaneously cohabit. It traces this process through assessing the subjects’ deliberation on the discourse. Delineating the believers’ renegotiation of their societal roles and identities while being exposed to controlled religious discourse is the main occupation of this chapter. This chapter also shows the limits of neoliberal governmentalities and dissent that it could reap when the religious discourse meets the practicalities of worldly life. However, it also demarcates the boundaries of dissent, and shows that even if deliberation leads to questioning of the parameters of governmentalities, the subjects would still remain within the paradigm, and rather than opposing the role that discourse has gained, they question the role of the agency that transmits this discourse. Therefore, they oppose the agency but not the source of the discourse.
