Working in four scholarly teams focused on different global regions—North America, the European Union, the Middle East, and China—the contributors to Religion, Secularism, and Political Belonging examine how new political worlds intersect with locally specific articulations of religion and secularism. The chapters address many topics, including the changing relationship between Islam and politics in Tunisia after the 2010 revolution, the influence of religion on the sharp turn to the political right in Western Europe, understandings of Confucianism as a form of secularism, and the alliance between evangelical Christians and neoliberal business elites in the United States since the 1970s. This volume also provides a methodological template for how humanities scholars around the world can collaboratively engage with sweeping issues of global significance.
Contributors. Markus Balkenhol, Elizabeth Bentley, Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, David N. Gibbs, Ori Goldberg, Marcia Klotz, Zeynep Kurtulus Korkman, Leerom Medovoi, Eva Midden, Mohanad Mustafa, Mu-chou Poo, Shaul Setter, John Vignaux Smith, Pooyan Tamimi Arab, Ernst van den Hemel, Albert Welter, Francis Ching-Wah Yip, Raef Zreik
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- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Translated Secularisms, Global Humanities / Leerom Medovoi and Elizabeth Bentley
- Part I: Secularism
- Keyword: Neutrality / Elizabeth Bentley
- Keyword: Science / John Vignaux Smyth
- 1. Strict Neutrality Reconsidered: Religion and Political Belonging in the Netherlands / Pooyan Tamimi Arab
- 2. Confucian Secularism in Theoretical and Historical Perspective / Albert Welter
- 3. From Exclusive to Inclusive Secularity: Religion, State, and the Public Space in Tunisia after the Revolution / Mohanad Mustafa
- 4. Neoliberal Political Theology / Marcia Klotz and Leerom Medovoi
- 5. “Christian Atheism” on Twitter: Dutch Populism and/as Culturalized Religion / Ernst van den Hemel
- Part II: Religion
- Keyword: Nationalism / Ernst van den Hemel and Markus Balkenhol
- Keyword: Fundamentalism / Leerom Medovoi
- 6. Religion, Politics, and Nationalism, a Case Study: The Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement / Raef Zreik and Mohanad Mustafa
- 7. Trains on Time: Faith, Political Belonging, and Governability in Israel / Ori Goldberg
- 8. Making Sense by Comprehending Sensibility: A View of Chinese Religions / Mu-chou
Poo
- 9. Evangelical Christianity, Big Business, and the Resurgence of American Conservatism during the 1970s / David N. Gibbs
- 10. Among New Believers: Religion, Gender, and National Identity in the Netherlands / Eva Midden
- Part III: Political Belonging
- Keyword: Faith / Ori Goldberg
- Keyword: Civil Religion / Mu-chou Poo
- 11. Muslim Migration, Citizenship, and Belonging in U.S. Politics of Secularism / Kambiz GhaneaBassiri
- 12. Commemorating the African Ancestors: Entanglements of Citizenship, Colonialism, and Religion in the Netherlands / Markus Balkenhol
- 13. Transsecular Incarnations: Destabilizing the (Cis)Gender Politics of Secularism / Zeynep Kurtulus Korkman
- 14. Christianity and the Political Religion of China / Francis Ching-Wah Yip
- 15. Critical Israel: Toward a Contemporary Political Theology of the Particular / Shaul Setter
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