ABSTRACT
The language of the 'postsecular' acknowledges the enduring presence of faith in politics, repudiating secularization theses claiming diminution or privatization of religion in social and political life. This chapter questions the hegemonic view pervasive in both secular and postsecular theorizing of the fiction of immutability of faith in the ICZs and recognizes its rupture and displacement. It explores the principal forms in which the 'postsecular' resonates in the ICZs. The chapter explores the apparent irrelevance or transparency of the postsecular condition in the ICZs. The chapter addresses the 'myth' of secularity in international relations (IR) to help situate the problematic location of Islam in received narratives. It explains the ruptures and displacements of religion in these zones under conditions largely not of their own choosing. The story of the postsecular in IR is complex and ambiguous, illustrated in part in recent debates over political theology. Postsecularity casts its shadow upon the intricate relation between religion and politics in IR.
