Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-231-16249-4
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 344 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 466 g

Reihe: Religion, Culture, and Public Life

Global struggles over women's roles, rights, and dress increasingly cast the secular and the religious in tense if not violent opposition. When advocates for equality speak in terms of rights and modern progress, or reactionaries ground their authority in religious and scriptural appeals, both tend to presume women's emancipation is ineluctably tied to secularization. Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference upsets this certainty by drawing on diverse voices and traditions in studies that historicize, question, and test the implicit links between secularism and expanded freedoms for women. Rather than position secularism as the answer to conflicts over gender and sexuality, this volume shows both religion and the secular collaborate in creating the conditions that generate them.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cady, Linell

Fessenden, Tracy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politik & Religion, Religionsfreiheit
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religiöse Fragen von Sexualität, Geschlecht und Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Feministische Perspektiven in den Wissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments
Part 1 by Gendering the Divide
1. Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference: An Introduction, by Linell E. Cady and Tracy Fessenden
2. Secularism and Gender Equality, by Joan Wallach Scott
3. Sexuality and Secularism, by Saba Mahmood
4. Must It Be Either Secular or Religious? Reflections on the Contemporary Journeys of Women’s Rights Activists in Egypt, by Azza Karam
5. Religion and Women’s Political Mobilization, by Ann Braude
Part 2 by Gender and the Privatization of Religion
6. Secular Liberalism, Roman Catholicism, and Social Hierarchies: Understanding Multiple Paths, by Gene Burns
7. Gendering the Secular and Religious in Modern Egypt: Woman, Family, and Nation, by Margot Badran
8. Women, Religion, and Politics in Bosnia and Herzegovina, by Zilka Spahi?-Šiljak
Part 3 by Gender, Sexuality, and the Body Politic
9. Bodies-Politics: Christian Secularism and the Gendering of U.S. Policy, by Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini
10. Crimes of Moral Turpitude: Questions at the Borders of Religion, the Secular, and the U.S. Nation-State, by Molly K. McGarry
11. On French Religions and Their Renewed Embodiments, by Nacira Guénif-Souilamas
Part 4 by Bridging the Divide
12. Rescued by Law? Gender and the Global Politics of Secularism, by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
13. The Brahmin Widow and Female Religious Agency: Anticaste Critique in Two Modern Indian Texts, by Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
14. Issues with Authority: Feminist Commitments in a Late Secular Age, by David Kyuman Kim
Bibliography
Contributors
Index

Leseproben

Read the chapter, "Gendering the Divide," by Linell E. Cady and Tracy Fessenden

Über Autor(innen)

Linell E. Cady is professor of religious studies and director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University.

Tracy Fessenden is associate professor of religious studies at Arizona State University.