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Author | : Hussein Ali Agrama |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2012-11-02 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0226010686 |
What, exactly, is secularism? What has the West's long familiarity with it inevitably obscured? In this work, 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.
Author | : Hussein Ali Agrama |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2012-11-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0226010708 |
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.
Author | : Jennifer Selby |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2016-04-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1137011327 |
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).
Author | : Philip Gorski |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2012-03-12 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0814738729 |
"This collection of original essays by leading academics represents an interdisciplinary intervention in the continuing and ever-transforming discussion of the role of religion and secularism in today's world. Foregrounding the most urgent and compelling questions raised by the place of religion in the social sciences, past and present, The Post-Secular in Question restores religion to a more central place in social scientific thinking about the world, helping to move scholarship 'beyond unbelief.'"--book jacket.
Author | : David Westerlund |
Publisher | : C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781850652410 |
Should the state be secular or religious. Here the author seeks to determine the extent of the role of religion in political life.
Author | : Timothy Keller |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2016-09-20 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0525954155 |
We live in an age of skepticism. Our society places such faith in empirical reason, historical progress, and heartfelt emotion that it’s easy to wonder: Why should anyone believe in Christianity? What role can faith and religion play in our modern lives? In this thoughtful and inspiring new book, pastor and New York Times bestselling author Timothy Keller invites skeptics to consider that Christianity is more relevant now than ever. As human beings, we cannot live without meaning, satisfaction, freedom, identity, justice, and hope. Christianity provides us with unsurpassed resources to meet these needs. Written for both the ardent believer and the skeptic, Making Sense of God shines a light on the profound value and importance of Christianity in our lives.
Author | : John Lardas Modern |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2011-11-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0226533255 |
Ghosts. Railroads. Sing Sing. Sex machines. These are just a few of the phenomena that appear in John Lardas Modern’s pioneering account of religion and society in nineteenth-century America. This book uncovers surprising connections between secular ideology and the rise of technologies that opened up new ways of being religious. Exploring the eruptions of religion in New York’s penny presses, the budding fields of anthropology and phrenology, and Moby-Dick, Modern challenges the strict separation between the religious and the secular that remains integral to discussions about religion today. Modern frames his study around the dread, wonder, paranoia, and manic confidence of being haunted, arguing that experiences and explanations of enchantment fueled secularism’s emergence. The awareness of spectral energies coincided with attempts to tame the unruly fruits of secularism—in the cultivation of a spiritual self among Unitarians, for instance, or in John Murray Spear’s erotic longings for a perpetual motion machine. Combining rigorous theoretical inquiry with beguiling historical arcana, Modern unsettles long-held views of religion and the methods of narrating its past.
Author | : Phil Zuckerman |
Publisher | : Penguin Books |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2015-10-27 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0143127934 |
A sociology professor examines the demographic shift that has led more Americans than ever before to embrace a nonreligious life and highlights the inspirational stories and beliefs that empower modern-day secular culture.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Fatwas |
ISBN | : 9786613970008 |
Author | : Nandini Deo |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2018-07-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1350038083 |
Postsecular Feminisms explores the contested relationship between feminism and secularism through a series of case studies, featuring perspectives from the global North and South. It offers insights beyond those of the Abrahamic traditions, and includes multiple examples from South Asia. By decentering the European experience, Postsecular Feminisms shows how secularism and feminism have been constituted in North America, South Asia, and Anglophone West Africa. The book asks: can postsecular feminism offer a way to think about religion and gender so as to support women in all the variety of their lived experiences? The contributors show that postsecular feminism is a variety of feminism that is not necessarily either secularist or anti-secular. Rather it is feminism informed by a history of secularist bias within liberal feminism. Postsecular Feminisms explores both the potentials and pitfalls of postsecular feminisms, with some authors arguing that a contextually grounded praxis is possible, while others make a strong case against postsecular feminism as theory and practice.