Secularisms

by Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini

Book Overview

At a time when secularism is put forward as the answer to religious fundamentalism and violence, Secularisms offers a powerful, multivoiced critique of the narrative equating secularism with modernity, reason, freedom, peace, and progress. Bringing together essays by scholars based in religious studies, gender and sexuality studies, history, science studies, anthropology, and political science, this volume challenges the binary conception of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822341492
• ISBN13: 9780822341499
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.6"