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At a time when secularism is put forward as the answer to religious fundamentalism and violence, "Secularisms" offers a powerful, multifaceted 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, Secularisms crucially complicates this dominant narrative by showing that secularism is multiple. How secularism is lived and experienced varies with its national, regional, and religious context. The religious traditions explored in relation to local secularisms range from Islam, Judaism, and 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.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Aspects of religion (non-Christian)

• Full title: Secularisms
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 416
• EAN: 9780822341253
• ISBN: 0822341255
• ID: 04938654
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Weight: 717 g
• Dimensions: 241 × 164 × 35 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. March 2008

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