Religion, Secularism, and Political Belonging

Published by Duke University Press 2021

Religion, Secularism, and Political Belonging

Edited by: Leerom Medovoi and Elizabeth Bentley

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478012986

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About this book

The contributors to Religion, Secularism, and Political Belonging examine how the new political worlds that are emerging—from Trump's America to the post-Arab-Spring Middle East—intersect with locally specific articulations of religion and secularism.

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

“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

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction: Translated Secularisms, Global Humanities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Contributors Leerom Medovoi and Elizabeth Bentley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Secularism
Keyword: Neutrality Elizabeth Bentley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Keyword: Science John Smyth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
2. Confucian Secularism in Theoretical and Historical Perspective Albert Welter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
3. From Exclusive to Inclusive Secularity: Religion, State, and the Public Space in Tunisia after the Revolution Mohanad Mustafa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
4. Neoliberal Political Theology Marcia Klotz and Leerom Medovoi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
5. “Christian Atheism” on Twitter: Dutch Populism and/as Culturalized Religion Ernst Hemel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Part II: Religion
Keyword: Nationalism Ernst Hemel and Markus Balkenhol Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Keyword: Fundamentalism Leerom Medovoi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
6. Religion, Politics, and Nationalism, a Case Study: The Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement Raef Zreik and Mohanad Mustafa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
7. Trains on Time: Faith, Political Belonging, and Governability in Israel Ori Goldberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
8. Making Sense by Comprehending Sensibility: A View of Chinese Religions Mu Poo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
9. Evangelical Christianity, Big Business, and the Resurgence of American Conservatism during the 1970s David Gibbs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
10. Among New Believers: Religion, Gender, and National Identity in the Netherlands Eva Midden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Part III: Political belonging
Keyword: Faith Ori Goldberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Keyword: Civil Religion Mu Poo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
11. Muslim Migration, Citizenship, and Belonging in U.S. Politics of Secularism Kambiz GhaneaBassiri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
12. Commemorating the African Ancestors: Entanglements of Citizenship, Colonialism, and Religion in the Netherlands Markus Balkenhol Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
13. Transsecular Incarnations: Destabilizing the (Cis)Gender Politics of Secularism Zeynep Korkman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
14. Christianity and the Political Religion of China Francis Yip Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
15. Critical Israel: Toward a Contemporary Political Theology of the Particular Shaul Setter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	343
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 376

eBook

Published: March 8, 2021
ISBN: 9781478012986