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Interrogating Secularism
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Author : Danielle Haque
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 2019-09-25
Interrogating Secularism written by Danielle Haque and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
Interrogating Secularism is a call to rethink binary categories of "religion" and "secularism" in contemporary Arab American fiction and art. While most studies that explore the traffic between literature and issues of secularism emphasize how canonical texts naturalize and reinforce secular values, Interrogating Secularism approaches this nexus through novels written by and about ethnic and religious minorities. Haque juxtaposes accounts of secular experience in the writing of Arab Anglophone authors such as Mohja Kahf, Rabih Alameddine, Khaled Mattawa, Laila Lalami, and Rawi Hage, with Arab and Muslim artists such as Ninar Esber, Mounir Fatmi, Hasan Elahi, and Emily Jacir. Looking at multiple genres and modes of aesthetic production, including AIDS narratives, visual art, and digital media, Haque explores how their conventions are used to subvert the ideals tied to secularism and the various anxieties and investments that support secularism as a premise. These authors and artists critique Western iterations of secular thought in spaces such as art exhibits, airports, borders, and literary discourses to capture how the secularism thesis reproduces the exclusivity it intends to remedy.
Questioning The Secular State
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Author : David Westerlund
language : en
Publisher: C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
Release Date : 1996
Questioning The Secular State written by David Westerlund and has been published by C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Religion categories.
Should the state be secular or religious. Here the author seeks to determine the extent of the role of religion in political life.
Questioning Secularism
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Author : Hussein Ali Agrama
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2012-11-02
Questioning Secularism written by Hussein Ali Agrama and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-02 with Social Science categories.
The central question of the Arab Spring—what democracies should look like in the deeply religious countries of the Middle East—has developed into a vigorous debate over these nations’ secular identities. But what, exactly, is secularism? What has the West’s long familiarity with it inevitably obscured? In Questioning Secularism, Hussein Ali Agrama tackles these questions. Focusing on the fatwa councils and family law courts of Egypt just prior to the revolution, he delves deeply into the meaning of secularism itself and the ambiguities that lie at its heart. Drawing on a precedent-setting case arising from the family law courts —the last courts in Egypt to use Shari‘a law—Agrama shows that secularism is a historical phenomenon that works through a series of paradoxes that it creates. Digging beneath the perceived differences between the West and Middle East, he highlights secularism’s dependence on the law and the problems that arise from it: the necessary involvement of state sovereign power in managing the private spiritual lives of citizens and the irreducible set of legal ambiguities such a relationship creates. Navigating a complex landscape between private and public domains, Questioning Secularism lays important groundwork for understanding the real meaning of secularism as it affects the real freedoms of a citizenry, an understanding of the utmost importance for so many countries that are now urgently facing new political possibilities.
Interrogating Muslims
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Author : Schirin Amir-Moazami
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-06-30
Interrogating Muslims written by Schirin Amir-Moazami and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-30 with Social Science categories.
This book interrogates the patterns and discursive structures that have generated the seeming urgency of Muslims' integration. Focusing on Germany, it problematizes the grounds on which politics of integration are justified and reasoned upon, and thereby investigates divergent operations of power vis-à-vis Muslims and Islam in a formally liberal-secular society. The integration paradigm in Germany has been predicated on an imperial knowledge regime, in which Islam figures as the external friend or enemy of an imagined Christian secular. This book analyzes three kinds of integration practices as symptomatic sites for the multifaceted dimensions of power in this paradigm: the scientific measurement of Muslims' degrees of integration which are correlated with their degrees of religiosity; the politics of recognition promoted by state-organized dialogue with Muslims; and the threat of sanction, found in the regulations of citizenship and explicitly in citizenship tests. Centrally, the book argues that the paradigm of integration navigates between universalist claims and particularistic-racial and religious-re-enactments of a secular nation-state framework at moments in which this very framework is crumbling.
Questioning French Secularism
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Author : Jennifer Selby
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-06
Questioning French Secularism written by Jennifer Selby and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-06 with Social Science categories.
Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, this book examines how contemporary secularism in France is positioned as a guarantor of women’s rights. Selby argues that the complex “fetishization” of headscarves in public, governmental, and feminist French discourse positions publicly-visible Muslim women in ways that obscure their engagement with laïcité (French secularism).
Secular Faith
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Author : Vincent William Lloyd
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2011-01-01
Secular Faith written by Vincent William Lloyd and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-01 with Religion categories.
Is faith a necessary virtue in the contemporary world? May it be, or must it be, detached from religious commitment? What do genealogies of the secular tell us about faith? Does religion need secular faith? Secular Faith brings together leading and emerging scholars to reflect on the apparent paradox of "secular faith." Ranging over anthropology, religious studies, political science, history, and literature, from Muslims in China to Pentecostals in South Africa to a prison chapel in Texas, this collection of essays is as engaging and accessible as it is penetrating and rigorous. Communism was once labeled "the god that failed." Like Christianity, Communism involves faith in a superhuman endeavor, conversion, myth, discipline, and salvation--and, from the perspective of secular liberalism, both are unjustified and false. In recent years, scholars have begun to investigate whether secularism is itself based on faith in a god that failed, or is failing. Nevertheless, many still embrace such a faith, finding in the spirit of democracy an ethos of eternal renewal. Secular Faith enters and broadens this conversation, interrogating secular faith in a global context, tapping new theoretical resources, and grappling provocatively with the tragedies and opportunities of today's profane pantheon of beliefs. LIST OF ESSAYS AND THEIR CONTRIBUTORS 1 Uncool Passion: Nietzsche Meets the Pentecostals--Jean Comaroff / 21 2 The Secular Bad Faith of Harry Theriault, the Bishop of Tellus--Joshua Dubler / 44 3 Darwin's Dogs: Animals, Animism, and the Problem of Religion--David Chidester / 76 4 "IHave Seen Miracles in My Life": W. E. B. Du Bois and the Religious Limits of Secularism--Edward J. Blum / 102 5 Democracy, Piety, and Faith: AReading of Dewey's Religious Naturalism--Melvin Rogers / 126 6 Faith in the Time of Postsocialism--Cindy Huang / 153 7 Literary Enchantment and Literary Opposition from Hume to Scott--Colin Jager / 168 8 Imagined Communities, Holistic Histories, and Secular Faith--Michael Saler / 197 9 Interreligious Dialogue and Cosmopolitan Faith--Adam K. Webb / 226
Secularism On The Edge
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Author : J. Berlinerblau
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-08-13
Secularism On The Edge written by J. Berlinerblau and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-13 with Social Science categories.
In this dynamic and wide-ranging collection of essays, prominent scholars examine the condition of church-state relations in the United States, France, and Israel. Their analyses are rooted in a wide variety of disciplines, ranging from ethnography and demography to political science, gender studies, theology, and the law.
Rethinking Secularism
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Author : Craig Calhoun
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011-08-25
Rethinking Secularism written by Craig Calhoun and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-25 with Religion categories.
This collection of essays examines how ''the secular'' is constituted and understood, and how new understandings of secularism and religion shape analytic perspectives in the social sciences, politics, and international affairs.
Religion The Secular And The Politics Of Sexual Difference
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Author : Linell E. Cady
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2013-11-12
Religion The Secular And The Politics Of Sexual Difference written by Linell E. Cady and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-12 with Religion categories.
Global struggles over women’s roles, rights, and dress have taken center stage in a drama that casts the secular and the religious in tense if not violent opposition. Advocates for equality speak of the issue in terms of rights and modern progress while reactionaries ground their authority in religious and scriptural appeals. Both sides presume women’s emancipation is tied to secularization. This volume upsets these certainties by blending diverse voices and traditions, both secular and religious, in studies historicizing, questioning, and testing the implicit links between secularism and expanded freedoms for women. Rather than treat secularism as the answer to conflicts over gender and sexuality, these essays show how it structures the conditions generating them.
Secular Common Sense
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Author : Mukul Kesavan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Secular Common Sense written by Mukul Kesavan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Political Science categories.
Interrogating India Is A New Series That Looks Critically At The Common Sense Prevailing On Some Of The Most Pressing Issues Of Our Times. Passionate, Accessible And Opinionated, These Reflections From Some Of India S Best Minds Will Help To Make Better Sense Of The Public Debate On These Issues While, Hopefully, Provoking Us To Respond To The Challenges They Present. In This Essay, Mukul Kesavan Argues That Secularism Is And Always Has Been The Political Common Sense Of The Republic. The Other Titles In The Series Are: Roots Of Terrorism By Kanti Bajpai (Publishing Date: October 2002) Language As An Ethic By Vijay Nambisan (Publishing Date: August 2003) The Burden Of Democracy By Pratap Bhanu Mehta (Publishing Date: August 2003)