End of Religion

Kathleen McPhillips is a sociologist of religion and gender in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Naomi Goldenberg is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada.

• Introduction The Religious is Political Naomi Goldenberg Religion as a Vestigial State: A Comment on Religion, Gender and ViolenceKathleen McPhillips Towards an Understanding of Femicide: Contemporary (Patriarchal) State Violence in Juárez, Mexico Larisa Garrett E Pluribus Patriarchy: Religion and State in the Contemporary USElizabeth A. Pritchard Multifaithism and Secularism in the UKSukhwant Dhaliwal Vestigial State Theory and Law in Canada: A Critical ResponsePeggy Schmeiser Church and State Power in Canada: The Colonial Project and its Continued Impact on Indigenous WomenBarbara Greenberg Ceremony and the Symbolic Re-Appropriation of Indigeneity: A Feminist Critique of Settler Colonialism in a Progressive Liberal Democratic Nation-StateStacie Swain The Liberalisation of Modern Catholic Social Thought: Contextualising Catholic Anti-Feminism and Homophobia in a Vestigial State Andrew Pump The End of Religion—The End of ManGeraldine Finn Iconographies of Modernity: Figures of Religion, Authority and Gender in the ‘Secular’ StateYvonne Sherwood