Secularisms

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Title:

Secularisms

Author:

Jakobsen, Janet R., 1960-

ISBN:

9780822341253

9780822341499

Publication Information:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.

Physical Description:

405 p. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Social text books

Series Title:

Social text books

General Note:

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

Introduction: Times like these / Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini -- Part I: Secular interventions -- (Un)veiling feminism / Afsaneh Najmabadi -- Secularism and laicism in Turkey / Taha Parla and Andrew Davison -- Women between community and state : some implications of the uniform civil code debates / Rajeswari Sunder Rajan -- Other moderns, other Jews : revisiting Jewish secularism in America / Laura Levitt -- Disappearances : race, religion, and the progress narrative of U.S. feminism / Tracy Fessenden -- Late secularism / Robert J. Baird -- What tangled webs we weave : science, secularism, and religion in contemporary India / Banu Subramaniam -- Part II: Secular relations : micronarratives -- Secularizing the pain of footbinding in China : missionary and medical stagings of the universal body / Angela Zito -- Ghostly appearances / Geeta Patel -- "The quick, the dead, and the yet unborn" : untimely sexualities and secular hauntings / Molly McGarry -- Part III: Public alternatives -- Toward secular diaspora : relocating religion and politics / Tyler Roberts -- Feminisms and secularisms / Kathleen Sands -- Continuity or rupture? : an argument for secular Britain / Ranu Samantrai.

Subject Term:

Secularism.

Secularization (Theology)

Religion and culture.

Added Author:

Jakobsen, Janet R., 1960-

Pellegrini, Ann, 1964-

Electronic Access:

Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip081/2007038606.html

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Summary

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