This edited volume asks whether feminism has to be secular. The contributors look at how women’s movements have worked with, through, and against religion in North America, South Asia, and West Africa, and they move the discussion beyond the Abrahamic traditions and the European experience. Some chapters argue that a grounded postsecular feminist practice is possible. Others make a strong case against it. Cases include Islamic feminism in India, Dalit feminism, Mormon feminists in the United States, gender workers in Ghana, and polio campaigns in Pakistan.
Details
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
- Published: July 2018, 240 pages
- ISBN: 978-1-350-03806-6 (hardback); also in paperback and ebook
- Contributors: Nandini Deo (introduction), William J. Bulman, Alka Arora, Neera Chandhoke, Khurram Hussain, R. Santhosh, Timothy J. Loftus, Christine L. Cusack, Nana Akua Anyidoho, Afiya Shehrbano Zia
- Read: Bloomsbury Collections (through libraries)
- Buy: Bloomsbury
- Reviewed in: Reading Religion; Religion and Gender 9(2), 2019; Journal of Contemporary Religion 36(1), 2021; Feministische Studien, 2021
