Religion, Secularism, and Political Belonging

Leerom Medovoi is Professor of English at the University of Arizona and author of Rebels: Youth and the Cold War Origins of Identity, also published by Duke University Press.Elizabeth Bentley is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Arizona.

“Religion, Secularism, and Political Belonging attends to transnational particularities as a way to address global realities. The book brings together teams of scholars working in different geographic areas and developing their analyses through engagement with each other and the world. Starting from the multiplicity of secularisms and the entanglement of secularism, religion, and political belonging, they build connections between the politics of critique and the ethics of care.” - Janet R. Jakobsen, Claire Tow Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Barnard College, Columbia University “Leerom Medovoi and Elizabeth Bentley have put together a rich comparative volume on the complexities of religion and secularism that indicates the range and varieties of both as well as the intense interactions between them in different national and global contexts. This compelling and unique collection will be taken up by many readers concerned with questions of religion, the secular, and the political.” - David Theo Goldberg, author of (Are We All Postracial Yet?) "For the student and scholar of secularisms, Religion, Secularism, & Political Belonging provides a worthwhile and useful selection of content and conversation partners. . . . A book of this nature cannot be comprehensive; it is a beginning to further conversations. It can, however, be provocative and insightful. . . . It is a good thing to read a book on such a heady topic and come away interested and ready for more." - Zachariah S. Motts (Religion)

• Acknowledgments  xiIntroduction: Translated Secularisms, Global Humanities / Leerom Medovoi and Elizabeth Bentley 1Part I. SecularismKeyword: Neutrality / Elizabeth Bentley  35Keyword: Science / John Vignaux Smyth  431. Strict Neutrality Reconsidered: Religion and Political Belonging in the Netherlands / Pooyan Tamimi Arab  492. Confucian Secularism in Theoretical and Historical Perspective / Albert Welter  693. From Exclusive to Inclusive Secularity: Religion, State, and the Public Space in Tunisia after the Revolution / Mohanad Mustafa  854. Neoliberal Political Theology / Marcia Klotz and Leerom Medovoi  1075. "Christian Atheism" on Twitter: Dutch Populism and/as Culturalized Religion / Ernst van den Hemel  125Part II. ReligionKeyword: Nationalism / Ernst van den Hemel and Markus Balkenhol  139Keyword: Fundamentalism / Leerom Medovoi  1476. Religion, Politics, and Nationalism, a Case Study: The Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement / Raef Zreik and Mohanad Mustafa  1557. Trains on Time: Faith, Political Belonging, and Governability in Israel / Ori Goldberg  1758. Making Sense by Comprehending Sensibility: A View of Chinese Religions / Mu-chou Poo  1919. Evangelical Christianity, Big Business, and the Resurgenc of American Conservatism during the 1970s / David N. Gibbs  20710. Among New Believers: Religion, Gender, and National Identity in the Netherlands / Eva Midden  223Part III. Political BelongingKeyword: Faith / Ori Goldberg  239Keyword: Civil Religion / Mu-chou Poo  24311. Muslim Migration, Citizenship, and Belonging in U.S. Politics of Secularism / Kambiz GhaneaBassiri  25112. Commemorating the African Ancestors: Entanglements of Citizenship, Colonialism, and Religion in the Netherlands / Markus Balkenhol  26513. Transsecular Incarnations: Destabilizing the (Cis)Gender Politics of Secularism / Zeynap Kurtuluş Korkman  28314. Christianity and the Political Religion of China / Francis Ching-Wah Yip  30515. Critical Israel: Toward a Contemporary Political Theology of the Particular / Shaul Setter 325Contributors  343Index 347