Jakobsen / Pellegrini Secularisms

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8889-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 416 Seiten

Reihe: Social text books

A collection that challenges the binary conception of conservative religion versus progressive secularism by highlighting the existence of multiple secularisms.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jakobsen, Janet R.

Pellegrini, Ann

Weitere Mitwirkende

Parla, Taha

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Hinduismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Times Like These / Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini 1

Part 1. Secular Interventions

1. (Un)Veiling Feminism / Afsaneh Najmabadi 39

2. Secularism and Laicism in Turkey / Taha Parla and Andrew Davison 58

3. Women Between Community and State: Some Implications of the Uniform Civil Code Debates / Rajeswari Sunder Rajan 76

4. Other Moderns, Other Jews: Revisiting Jewish Secularism in America / Laura Levitt 107

5. Disappearances: Race, Religion, and the Progress Narrative of U.S. Feminism / Tracy Fessenden 139

6. Late Secularism / Robert J. Baird 162

7. What Tangled Webs We Weave: Science, Secularism, and Religion in Contemporary India / Banu Subramaniam 178

Part 2. Secular Relations: Micronarratives

8. Secularizing the Pain of Footbinding in China: Missionary and Medical Stagings of the Universal Body / Angela Zito 205

9. Ghostly Appearances / Geeta Patel 226

10. "The Quick, the Dead, and the Yet Unborn": Untimely Sexualities and Secular Hauntings / Molly McGarry 247

Part 3. Public Alternatives

11. Toward Secular Diaspora: Relocating Religion and Politics / Tyler Roberts 283

12. Feminisms and Secularisms / Kathleen Sands 308

13. Continuity or Rupture? An Argument for Secular Britain / Ranu Samantrai 330

Bibliography 353

Contributors 387

Index 391

Über Autor(innen)

Janet R. Jakobsen is Director of the Center for Research on Women at Barnard College. She is the author of Working Alliances and the Politics of Difference: Diversity and Feminist Ethics and a coeditor of Interventions: Activists and Academics Respond to Violence.Ann Pellegrini is Associate Professor of Performance Studies and Religious Studies at New York University. She is the author of Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race and a coeditor of Queer Theory and the Jewish Question. Jakobsen and Pellegrini are coauthors of Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance.