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Working in four scholarly teams focused on different global regions-North America, the European Union, the Middle East, and China-the contributors to Religion, Secularism, and Political Belonging examine how new political worlds intersect with locally specific articulations of religion and secularism. The chapters address many topics, including the changing relationship between Islam and politics in Tunisia after the 2010 revolution, the influence of religion on the sharp turn to the political right in Western Europe, understandings of Confucianism as a form of secularism, and the alliance between evangelical Christians and neoliberal business elites in the United States since the 1970s. This volume also provides a methodological template for how humanities scholars around the world can collaboratively engage with sweeping issues of global significance. Contributors. Markus Balkenhol, Elizabeth Bentley, Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, David N. Gibbs, Ori Goldberg, Marcia Klotz, Zeynep Kurtulus Korkman, Leerom Medovoi, Eva Midden, Mohanad Mustafa, Mu-chou Poo, Shaul Setter, John Vignaux Smith, Pooyan Tamimi Arab, Ernst van den Hemel, Albert Welter, Francis Ching-Wah Yip, Raef Zreik
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Author: Leerom Medovoi , Elizabeth Bentley
Publisher: Duke University Press
Imprint: Duke University Press
Weight: 0.522kg
ISBN: 9781478010784
ISBN 10: 1478010789
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 23 April 2021
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Translated Secularisms, Global Humanities / Leerom Medovoi and Elizabeth Bentley 1 Part I. Secularism Keyword: Neutrality / Elizabeth Bentley 35 Keyword: Science / John Vignaux Smyth 43 1. Strict Neutrality Reconsidered: Religion and Political Belonging in the Netherlands / Pooyan Tamimi Arab 49 2. Confucian Secularism in Theoretical and Historical Perspective / Albert Welter 69 3. From Exclusive to Inclusive Secularity: Religion, State, and the Public Space in Tunisia after the Revolution / Mohanad Mustafa 85 4. Neoliberal Political Theology / Marcia Klotz and Leerom Medovoi 107 5. ""Christian Atheism"" on Twitter: Dutch Populism and/as Culturalized Religion / Ernst van den Hemel 125 Part II. Religion Keyword: Nationalism / Ernst van den Hemel and Markus Balkenhol 139 Keyword: Fundamentalism / Leerom Medovoi 147 6. Religion, Politics, and Nationalism, a Case Study: The Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement / Raef Zreik and Mohanad Mustafa 155 7. Trains on Time: Faith, Political Belonging, and Governability in Israel / Ori Goldberg 175 8. Making Sense by Comprehending Sensibility: A View of Chinese Religions / Mu-chou Poo 191 9. Evangelical Christianity, Big Business, and the Resurgenc of American Conservatism during the 1970s / David N. Gibbs 207 10. Among New Believers: Religion, Gender, and National Identity in the Netherlands / Eva Midden 223 Part III. Political Belonging Keyword: Faith / Ori Goldberg 239 Keyword: Civil Religion / Mu-chou Poo 243 11. Muslim Migration, Citizenship, and Belonging in U.S. Politics of Secularism / Kambiz GhaneaBassiri 251 12. Commemorating the African Ancestors: Entanglements of Citizenship, Colonialism, and Religion in the Netherlands / Markus Balkenhol 265 13. Transsecular Incarnations: Destabilizing the (Cis)Gender Politics of Secularism / Zeynap Kurtuluş Korkman 283 14. Christianity and the Political Religion of China / Francis Ching-Wah Yip 305 15. Critical Israel: Toward a Contemporary Political Theology of the Particular / Shaul Setter 325 Contributors 343 Index 347
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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? * 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
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 areas of the world 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 together 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
Author 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.
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