Questioning Secularism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Questioning Secularism write by Hussein Ali Agrama. This book was released on 2012-11-02. Questioning Secularism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What, exactly, is secularism? What has the West's long familiarity with it inevitably obscured? In this work, Hussein Ali Agrama tackles these questions. Focusing on the fatwa councils and family law courts of Egypt just prior to the revolution, he delves deeply into the meaning of secularism itself and the ambiguities that lie at its heart.
Questioning Secularism
Questioning Secularism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Questioning Secularism write by Hussein Ali Agrama. This book was released on 2012-11-02. Questioning Secularism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The central question of the Arab Spring—what democracies should look like in the deeply religious countries of the Middle East—has developed into a vigorous debate over these nations’ secular identities. But what, exactly, is secularism? What has the West’s long familiarity with it inevitably obscured? In Questioning Secularism, Hussein Ali Agrama tackles these questions. Focusing on the fatwa councils and family law courts of Egypt just prior to the revolution, he delves deeply into the meaning of secularism itself and the ambiguities that lie at its heart. Drawing on a precedent-setting case arising from the family law courts —the last courts in Egypt to use Shari‘a law—Agrama shows that secularism is a historical phenomenon that works through a series of paradoxes that it creates. Digging beneath the perceived differences between the West and Middle East, he highlights secularism’s dependence on the law and the problems that arise from it: the necessary involvement of state sovereign power in managing the private spiritual lives of citizens and the irreducible set of legal ambiguities such a relationship creates. Navigating a complex landscape between private and public domains, Questioning Secularism lays important groundwork for understanding the real meaning of secularism as it affects the real freedoms of a citizenry, an understanding of the utmost importance for so many countries that are now urgently facing new political possibilities.
Questioning French Secularism
Questioning French Secularism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Questioning French Secularism write by Jennifer Selby. This book was released on 2016-04-06. Questioning French Secularism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, this book examines how contemporary secularism in France is positioned as a guarantor of women’s rights. Selby argues that the complex “fetishization” of headscarves in public, governmental, and feminist French discourse positions publicly-visible Muslim women in ways that obscure their engagement with laïcité (French secularism).
The Post-secular in Question
The Post-secular in Question - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Post-secular in Question write by Philip Gorski. This book was released on 2012-03-12. The Post-secular in Question available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This collection of original essays by leading academics represents an interdisciplinary intervention in the continuing and ever-transforming discussion of the role of religion and secularism in today's world. Foregrounding the most urgent and compelling questions raised by the place of religion in the social sciences, past and present, The Post-Secular in Question restores religion to a more central place in social scientific thinking about the world, helping to move scholarship 'beyond unbelief.'"--book jacket.
Secularism in Antebellum America
Secularism in Antebellum America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Secularism in Antebellum America write by John Lardas Modern. This book was released on 2011-11-11. Secularism in Antebellum America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ghosts. Railroads. Sing Sing. Sex machines. These are just a few of the phenomena that appear in John Lardas Modern’s pioneering account of religion and society in nineteenth-century America. This book uncovers surprising connections between secular ideology and the rise of technologies that opened up new ways of being religious. Exploring the eruptions of religion in New York’s penny presses, the budding fields of anthropology and phrenology, and Moby-Dick, Modern challenges the strict separation between the religious and the secular that remains integral to discussions about religion today. Modern frames his study around the dread, wonder, paranoia, and manic confidence of being haunted, arguing that experiences and explanations of enchantment fueled secularism’s emergence. The awareness of spectral energies coincided with attempts to tame the unruly fruits of secularism—in the cultivation of a spiritual self among Unitarians, for instance, or in John Murray Spear’s erotic longings for a perpetual motion machine. Combining rigorous theoretical inquiry with beguiling historical arcana, Modern unsettles long-held views of religion and the methods of narrating its past.
