Cady / Fessenden Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-231-53604-2
Verlag: Columbia University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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 E.

Cady, Linell

Fessenden, Tracy

Fachgebiete

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

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.