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Book SynopsisThe contributors to
Religion, Secularism, and Political Belonging examine how the new political worlds that are emerging—from Trump's America to the post-Arab-Spring Middle East—intersect with locally specific articulations of religion and secularism.
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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
“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? *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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
