Secularisms /edited by Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini.
Description
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.
405 p. ;24 cm.
Book Details
Place Published
City
Durham
Date Published
2008
Publication Subjects
Secularism.
Secularization (Theology)
Religion and culture.