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
| ISBN: | 9780822341499 |
| Publication date: | 11th March 2008 |
| Author: | Janet R Jakobsen, Ann Pellegrini |
| Publisher: | Duke University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 392 pages |
| Series: | Social Text Books |
| Genres: |
Christian Churches, denominations, groups Gender studies: women and girls Hinduism |
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.
Secularisms features in the following genres: Christian Churches, denominations, groups, Gender studies: women and girls, Hinduism
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Secularisms was written by Janet R Jakobsen, Ann Pellegrini and published by Duke University Press
Secularisms has 392 pages
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