Postsecular Feminisms

Nandini Deo is Associate Professor of Political Science at Lehigh University, USA. She is the author of Mobilizing Religion and Gender in India: The Role of Activism (2016).

• Contributor biographiesAcknowledgements1. Introduction, Nandini Deo (Lehigh University, USA)Part One: Provincializing Western Secularisms2. Postsecular Feminisms in Historical Perspective, William J Bulman (Lehigh University, USA)3. Re-Enchanting Feminism: Challenging Religious and Secular Patriarchies, Alka Arora (California Institute of Integral Studies, USA)4. The Crisis of Secularism and Its Aftermath, Neera Chandhoke (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)Part Two: Feminists Navigate the Religious5. A New Variety of Anti-Secularism?, Khurram Hussain (Lehigh University, USA)6. Predicaments of Islamic Feminism in India: Some Reflections, R. Santhosh (IIT Madras, India)7. Dalit Feminism as Postsecular Feminism, Timothy J. Loftus (Temple University, USA)8. (Not so) Well-behaved Women: Piety and practice among 21st century Mainstream Mormon Feminists, Christine L. Cusack (University of Ottawa, Canada)Part Three: Postsecular Feminism and Materialism9. The Intersection of Feminism, Religion and Development in the Discourses of ‘Gender Workers’ in Ghana, Nana Akua Anyidoho (University of Ghana, Ghana)10. Why I Am Not A Postsecular Feminist: Pakistan, Polio and the Postsecular, Afiya Shehrbano Zia (University of Toronto, Canada)Bibliography Index

All the essays detail the types of dilemmas faced by religious women in communities that struggle to define secular and sacred ... Such particulars on the lives of religious women struggling with patriarchy make this book well worth reading.