Awards

• Runner-up for Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Book Prize in Critical Anthropology 2020 (United States)
• Runner-up for Michelle Rosaldo Book Prize 2019 (United States)
• Runner-up for South Asia Muslim Studies Association Book Prize (United States).
• Runner-up for South Asia Muslim Studies Association Book Prize 2020 (United States)

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Katherine Lemons has written a powerful and compelling book that reshapes our understanding of secularism, Muslim law, and divorce in contemporary India. -- Rachel Sturman, Bowdoin College, and author of <I>The Government of Social Life in Colonial India</I>

This ethnographically rich and analytically astute book examines how secularism, rather than separating law from religion, unsettles any hard distinction between those two domains. With brilliant insight, Katherine Lemons underscores the entanglement of political economy in kinship, religion, and law. Divorcing Traditions is an original intervention into the study of secularism, religion, and gender. -- Mayanthi Fernando, University of California, Santa Cruz Divorcing Traditions is groundbreaking. It is a unique contribution to the understanding of the relation between religion and secularism in India-a splendid achievement. -- Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University Katherine Lemons has written a powerful and compelling book that reshapes our understanding of secularism, Muslim law, and divorce in contemporary India. -- Rachel Sturman, Bowdoin College, and author of <I>The Government of Social Life in Colonial India</I>

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Katherine Lemons is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at McGill University.

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