Secularisms

Janet R. Jakobsen is Director of the Center for Research on Women at Barnard College. She is the author of Working Alliances and the Politics of Difference: Diversity and Feminist Ethics and a coeditor of Interventions: Activists and Academics Respond to Violence. Ann Pellegrini is Associate Professor of Performance Studies and Religious Studies at New York University. She is the author of Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race and a coeditor of Queer Theory and the Jewish Question. Jakobsen and Pellegrini are coauthors of Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance.

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Times Like These / Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini 1

Part 1. Secular Interventions

1. (Un)Veiling Feminism / Afsaneh Najmabadi 39

2. Secularism and Laicism in Turkey / Taha Parla and Andrew Davison 58

3. Women Between Community and State: Some Implications of the Uniform Civil Code Debates / Rajeswari Sunder Rajan 76

4. Other Moderns, Other Jews: Revisiting Jewish Secularism in America / Laura Levitt 107

5. Disappearances: Race, Religion, and the Progress Narrative of U.S. Feminism / Tracy Fessenden 139

6. Late Secularism / Robert J. Baird 162

7. What Tangled Webs We Weave: Science, Secularism, and Religion in Contemporary India / Banu Subramaniam 178

Part 2. Secular Relations: Micronarratives

8. Secularizing the Pain of Footbinding in China: Missionary and Medical Stagings of the Universal Body / Angela Zito 205

9. Ghostly Appearances / Geeta Patel 226

10. "The Quick, the Dead, and the Yet Unborn": Untimely Sexualities and Secular Hauntings / Molly McGarry 247

Part 3. Public Alternatives

11. Toward Secular Diaspora: Relocating Religion and Politics / Tyler Roberts 283

12. Feminisms and Secularisms / Kathleen Sands 308

13. Continuity or Rupture? An Argument for Secular Britain / Ranu Samantrai 330

Bibliography 353

Contributors 387

Index 391