Secular bodies, affects, and emotions : : European configurations / / edited by Monique Scheer, Nadia Fadil, and Birgitte Schepelern Johansen.

"Taking its cue from the study of 'lived religion', Secular Bodies, Affects and Emotions shows how the idea of a secular public is equally marked by a display and cultivation of affect and emotions. Whereas it is widely agreed that religion is often saturated by emotion, the secular i...

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Place / Publishing House:New York : : Bloomsbury Academic,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Edition:1 [edition].
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (273 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Secular Embodiments: Mapping an Emergent Field Monique Scheer, Birgitte Schepelern Johansen, Nadia Fadil
  • Part 1 Bodies and Other Secular Things
  • 2 Contraception and the Coming of Secularism: Reconsidering Reproductive Freedom as Religious Freedom Pamela E. Klassen
  • 3 A Secular Corpse? Tracing Cremation in Nineteenth-Century Italy and Germany Carolin Kosuch
  • 4 Observing the Atheist at Worship: Ways of Seeing the Secular Body Lois Lee
  • 5 Secular Objects and Bodily Affects in the Museum Judith Dehail
  • Part 2 Being Secular
  • 6 Formations of a Secular Wedding Katie Aston
  • 7 Complex Feelings: Catholicism, Gender and the Postsecular Subject in Quebec Geraldine Mossiere
  • 8 Secular Self-fashioning against 'Islamization': Beauty Practices and the Crafting of Secular Subjectivities among Middle-Class Women in Istanbul Claudia Liebelt
  • 9 Love, War and Secular 'Reasonableness' among hilonim in Israel-Palestine Stacey Gutkowski
  • Part 3 Making Secular Citizens
  • 10 Secularizing Silent Bodies: Emotional Practices in the Minute's Silence Karsten Lichau
  • 11 Required Romance: On Secular Sensibilities in Recent French Marriage and Immigration Regulations J. A. Selby
  • 12 Quantitative Knowledge Production on Muslims in Europe as a Practice of 'Secular Suspicion' Birgitte Schepelern Johansen and Riem Spielhaus
  • 13 Secular Affect and Urban Exclusion: Feelings about Burkas in Public Spaces Marian Burchardt and Mar Griera
  • 14 Afterword: Getting Hold of the Secular Matthew Engelke
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.