Secularisms

by Jakobsen, Janet R.; Pellegrini, Ann

• ISBN13: 9780822341253
• ISBN10: 0822341255
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-30
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"Do you think you already know what "secularism" means? One virtue of this book is that the authors examine several modes and dimensions of secularism in different places, always closely attentive to the specific religious practices with which it is imbricated. Another is that the essays, taken together, loosen up the political imagination, allowing us to think outside the two-slot system--'either secularism or theocracy'--which has such debilitating effects on political thought. An admirable collection of essays."--William E. Connolly, author of "Capitalism and Christianity, American Style"

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Times Like These

Secular Interventions

(Un)Veiling Feminism

Secularism and Laicism in Turkey

Women Between Community and State: Some Implications of the Uniform Civil Code Debates

Other Moderns, Other Jews: Revisiting Jewish Secularism in America

Disappearances: Race, Religion, and the Progress Narrative of U.S. Feminism

Late Secularism

What Tangled Webs We Weave: Science, Secularism, and Religion in Contemporary India

Secular Relations: Micronarratives

Secularizing the Pain of Footbinding in China: Missionary and Medical Stagings of the Universal Body

Ghostly Appearances

"The Quick, the Dead, and the Yet Unborn": Untimely Sexualities and Secular Hauntings

Public Alternatives

Toward Secular Diaspora: Relocating Religion and Politics

Feminisms and Secularisms

Continuity or Rupture? An Argument for Secular Britain

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

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