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almafu_9959690091302883
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1 online resource (416 p.)
ISBN:
9780822388890
Series Statement:
Social text books
Content:
At a time when secularism is put forward as the answer to religious fundamentalism and violence, Secularisms offers a powerful, multivoiced critique of the narrative equating secularism with modernity, reason, freedom, peace, and progress. Bringing together essays by scholars based in religious studies, gender and sexuality studies, history, science studies, anthropology, and political science, this volume challenges the binary conception of “conservative” religion versus “progressive” secularism.With essays addressing secularism in India, Iran, Turkey, Great Britain, China, and the United States, this collection crucially complicates the dominant narrative by showing that secularism is multifaceted. How secularism is lived and experienced varies with its national, regional, and religious context. The essays explore local secularisms in relation to religious traditions ranging from Islam to Judaism, Hinduism to Christianity. Several contributors explicitly take up the way feminism has been implicated in the dominant secularization story. Ultimately, by dislodging secularism’s connection to the single (and singular) progress narrative, this volume seeks to open spaces for other possible narratives about both secularism and religion—as well as for other possible ways of inhabiting the contemporary world.Contributors: Robert J. Baird, Andrew Davison, Tracy Fessenden, Janet R. Jakobsen, Laura Levitt,Molly McGarry, Afsaneh Najmabadi, Taha Parla, Geeta Patel, Ann Pellegrini, Tyler Roberts,Ranu Samantrai, Banu Subramaniam, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Angela Zito
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Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --
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INTRODUCTION --
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PART 1. SECULAR INTERVENTIONS --
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CHAPTER ONE. (Un)veiling feminism --
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CHAPTER TWO. Secularism and laicism in turkey --
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CHAPTER THREE. Women between community and state: some implications of the uniform civil code debates --
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CHAPTER FOUR. Other moderns, other jews: revisiting jewish secularism in america --
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CHAPTER FIVE. Disappearances: race, religion, and the progress narrative of U.S. feminism --
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CHAPTER SIX. Late secularism --
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CHAPTER SEVEN. What tangled webs we weave: science, secularism, and religion in contemporary India --
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PART 2. SECULAR RELATIONS: MICRONARRATIVES --
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CHAPTER EIGHT. Secularizing the pain of footbinding in china: missionary and medical stagings of the universal body --
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CHAPTER NINE. Ghostly appearances --
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CHAPTER TEN. “The quick, the dead, and the yet unborn”: untimely sexualities and secular hauntings --
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PART 3. PUBLIC ALTERNATIVES --
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CHAPTER ELEVEN. Toward secular diaspora: relocating religion and politics --
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CHAPTER TWELVE. Feminisms and secularisms --
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CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Continuity or rupture? an argument for secular Britain --
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BIBLIOGRAPHY --
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CONTRIBUTORS --
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INDEX
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In English.
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
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Sociology
Keywords:
Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1515/9780822388890
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822388890
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https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822388890
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