At a time when secularism is put forward as the answer to religious
fundamentalism and violence, Secularisms offers a powerful,
multivoiced critique of the narrative equating secularism with
modernity, reason, freedom, peace, and progress. Bringing together
essays by scholars based in religious studies, gender and sexuality
studies, history, science studies, anthropology, and political
science, this volume challenges the binary conception of
"conservative" religion versus "progressive" secularism. With
essays addressing secularism in India, Iran, Turkey, Great Britain,
China, and the United States, this collection crucially complicates
the dominant narrative by showing that secularism is multifaceted.
How secularism is lived and experienced varies with its national,
regional, and religious context. The essays explore local
secularisms in relation to religious traditions ranging from Islam
to Judaism, Hinduism to Christianity. Several contributors
explicitly take up the way feminism has been implicated in the
dominant secularization story. Ultimately, by dislodging
secularism's connection to the single (and singular) progress
narrative, this volume seeks to open spaces for other possible
narratives about both secularism and religion-as well as for other
possible ways of inhabiting the contemporary world. Contributors:
Robert J. Baird, Andrew Davison, Tracy Fessenden, Janet R.
Jakobsen, Laura Levitt, Molly McGarry, Afsaneh Najmabadi, Taha
Parla, Geeta Patel, Ann Pellegrini, Tyler Roberts, Ranu Samantrai,
Banu Subramaniam, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Angela Zito
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