Secularisms [electronic resource] / edited by Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini.

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

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via Duke)
Other Authors: Jakobsen, Janet R., 1960-, Pellegrini, Ann, 1964-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Series:Social text books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.