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25%OFFLinell E. (Edi Cady - Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference - 9780231162487 - V9780231162487
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Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference

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Description for Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference Hardback. Editor(s): Cady, Linell E.; Fessenden, Tracy. Series: Religion, Culture and Public Life. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: HRAM; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Global struggles over women's roles, rights, and dress increasingly cast the secular and the religious in tense if not violent opposition. When advocates for equality speak in terms of rights and modern progress, or reactionaries ground their authority in religious and scriptural appeals, both tend to presume women's emancipation is ineluctably tied to secularization. Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference upsets this certainty by drawing on diverse voices and traditions in studies that historicize, question, and test the implicit links between secularism and expanded freedoms for women. Rather than position secularism as the answer to conflicts over ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Series
Religion, Culture and Public Life
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231162487
SKU
V9780231162487
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About Linell E. (Edi Cady
Linell E. Cady is professor of religious studies and director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University. Tracy Fessenden is associate professor of religious studies at Arizona State University.

Reviews for Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference
This exciting volume defamiliarizes our understanding of secularization as process and practice. The contributors raise profound questions regarding the persistence of 'the religious' as a form of ethicality, as a resistant presence and practice, and as an animating constraint in women's lives. The theoretical range and global scope of the volume is a remarkable achievement.
Anupama Rao, Barnard College ... Read more

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