Secularisms

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.

“The greatest strengths of [Secualarisms] are its thoughtful, incisive theoretical grounding and its inclusion of multiple minority reports which taken together challenge conventional secularism theorizing as it has developed.” - Jonathan Seitz, Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory “Do you think you already know what secularism means? One virtue of this book is that the authors examine several modes and dimensions of secularism in different places, always closely attentive to the specific religious practices with which it is imbricated. Another is that the essays, taken together, loosen up the political imagination, allowing us to think outside the two-slot system-‘either secularism or theocracy’-which has such debilitating effects on political thought. An admirable collection of essays.”-William E. Connolly, author of Capitalism and Christianity, American Style “The greatest strengths of Secualarisms are its thoughtful, incisive theoretical grounding and its inclusion of multiple minority reports which taken together challenge conventional secularism theorizing as it has developed.” - Jonathan Seitz (Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory)

• Acknowledgments ixIntroduction: Times Like These / Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini 1Part 1. Secular Interventions 1. (Un)Veiling Feminism / Afsaneh Najmabadi 392. Secularism and Laicism in Turkey / Taha Parla and Andrew Davison 583. Women Between Community and State: Some Implications of the Uniform Civil Code Debates / Rajeswari Sunder Rajan 764. Other Moderns, Other Jews: Revisiting Jewish Secularism in America / Laura Levitt 1075. Disappearances: Race, Religion, and the Progress Narrative of U.S. Feminism / Tracy Fessenden 1396. Late Secularism / Robert J. Baird 1627. What Tangled Webs We Weave: Science, Secularism, and Religion in Contemporary India / Banu Subramaniam 178Part 2. Secular Relations: Micronarratives 8. Secularizing the Pain of Footbinding in China: Missionary and Medical Stagings of the Universal Body / Angela Zito 2059. Ghostly Appearances / Geeta Patel 22610. "The Quick, the Dead, and the Yet Unborn": Untimely Sexualities and Secular Hauntings / Molly McGarry 247Part 3. Public Alternatives 11. Toward Secular Diaspora: Relocating Religion and Politics / Tyler Roberts 28312. Feminisms and Secularisms / Kathleen Sands 30813. Continuity or Rupture? An Argument for Secular Britain / Ranu Samantrai 330Bibliography 353Contributors 387Index 391