Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780231162494)

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 gender and sexuality, this volume shows both religion and the secular collaborate in creating the conditions that generate them.

Author: Linell Cady
ISBN-10: 0231162499
ISBN-13: 9780231162494
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/05/2013
Pages: 344
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d