Table of contents

1. Foreword
2. Acknowledgements
3. Contents
4. Contributors
5. Chapter 1 Introduction: Performing the Secular: Religion, Politics, and the Public Sphere
6. Chapter 2 Of Hypocrisy: “Wherein the Action and Utterance of the Stage, Bar, and Pulpit are Distinctly Consider’d”
7. Chapter 3 Dangerous Images: Theatre and the Transnational Public Sphere
8. Chapter 4 Thisworldly Wonderment: Contemporary British Theatre and Postsecularism
9. Chapter 5 The ‘Secular Designs’ of Wole Soyinka
10. Chapter 6 Kamikaze Spectres and Transgenerational Memories in Winds of God
11. Chapter 7 “Face-to-Face”: Open Secularism and the Politics of Display in Quebec’s Bouchard-Taylor Commission
12. Chapter 8 Sacred Values and Secular Evangelism in the Bill Nye-Ken Ham Debate
13. Chapter 9 Making the Sacred Public: Women, Performance and Protest in Contemporary Manipur
14. Chapter 10 Ever, Again: Psychoanalysis, Secular Time, and the Performance of Witness
15. References
16. Index