
Secularisms in a Postsecular Age?
Religiosities and Subjectivities in Comparative Perspective
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Secularisms in a Postsecular Age?
Religiosities and Subjectivities in Comparative Perspective
About this book
This volume ethnographically explores the relation between secularities and religious subjectivities. As a consequence of the demise of secularization theory, we live in an interesting intellectual moment where the so-called 'post-secular' coexists with the secular, which in turn has become pluralized and historicized. This cohabitation of the secular and post-secular is revealed mainly through political dialectical processes that overshadow the subjective and inter-subjective dimensions of secularity, making it difficult to pinpoint concrete sites, agents, and objects of expression.
Drawing on cases from South America, Africa, and Europe, contributors apply key insights from religious studies debates on the genealogies and formations of both religion and secularism. They explore the spaces, persons, and places in which these categories emerge and mutually constitute one another.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Chapter 1: Introduction: Secularities, Religiosities, and Subjectivities
- Chapter 2: Secular Selves and Bodies: The Case of State Agents in Charge of Implementing the Fight against Marriages of Convenience in Brussels
- Chapter 3: A Secular Religion within an Atheist State: The Case of Afro-Cuban Religiosity and the Cuban State
- Chapter 4: Islam and the Tablighi Jama’at in Spain: Ghosts of the Past, Limits of Representation, and New Developments
- Chapter 5: Embodying Religiosities and Subjectivities: The Responses of Young Spanish Muslims to Violence and Terrorism in the Name of Islam
- Chapter 6: Public Renderings of Islam and the Jihadi Threat: Political, Social, and Religious Critique in Civil Society in Fla ders, Belgium
- Chapter 7: What Is Spirituality for? New Relations between Religion, Health and Public Spaces
- Chapter 8: Managing Mosques in the Netherlands: Constitutional versus Culturalist Secularism
- Chapter 9: Governing the Poor: Secular and Religious Practices in Debate
- Chapter 10: The “Culture of Justification” in the Production of Public Religiosities in Brazil
- Chapter 11: Transformations in Argentinean Catholicism, from the Second Half of the Twentieth Century to Pope Francis
- Chapter 12: Caregiving as Spiritual Expertise: Spirituality and Lived Religion among Portuguese Hospital Chaplains
- Chapter 13: Religion Out of Place: Social Regulation of Evangelical Expansion in Buenos Aires
- Index