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Secularisms: A Social Text book

Autor Janet R. Jakobsen, Ann Pellegrini
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 mar 2008
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822341499
ISBN-10: 0822341492
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 166 x 233 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Seria A Social Text book


Cuprins

Introduction: Times Like These / Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann PellegriniPart 1 Secular Interventions1. (Un)Veiling Feminism / Afsaneh Najmabadi; 2. Secularism and Laicism in Turkey / Taha Parla and Andrew Davison; 3. Women between Community and State: Some Implications of the Uniform Civil Code Debates / Rajeswari Sunder Rajan; 4. Other Moderns, Other Jews: Revisiting Jewish Secularism in America / Laura Levitt; 5. Disappearances: Race, Religion, and the Progress Narrative of U.S. Feminism / Tracy Fessenden; 6. Late Secularism / Robert J. Baird; 7. What Tangled Webs We Weave: Science, Secularism, and Religion in Contemporary India / Banu SubramaniamPart 2 Secular Relations: Micronarratives8. Secularizing the Pain of Footbinding in China: Missionary and Medical Stagings of the Universal Body / Angela Zito; 9. Ghostly Appearances / Geeta Patel; 10. “The Quick, the Dead, and the Yet Unborn”: Untimely Sexualities and Secular Hauntings / Molly McGarryPart 3 Public Alternatives11. Toward Secular Diaspora: Relocating Religion and Politics / Tyler Roberts; 12. Feminisms and Secularisms / Kathleen Sands; 13. Continuity or Rupture? An Argument for Secular Britain / Ranu Samantrai

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"This collection of essays brings together an array of issues on the complexities of the various modern secular formations in theory and practice....the volume signifies the pluralities of secularisms in different times and spaces. The editors of the book deserve special praise because of the structured presentation of core arguments and the successful organization of the chapters over the 400 pages of the volume....The major strength of the work lies in its ability to link theoretically and analyze empirically the critical questions on secular practices, thereby making a strong plea for openness towards pluralities in the present world." Chandran Komath, Contemporary South Asia
"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

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"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"

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Shows how secularism is not always a progressive force, and does not always manifest itself as it does in the west