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Introduction: Times like these / Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini -- Part I: Secular interventions -- (Un)veiling feminism / Afsaneh Najmabadi -- Secularism and laicism in Turkey / Taha Parla and Andrew Davison -- Women between community and state : some implications of the uniform civil code debates / Rajeswari Sunder Rajan -- Other moderns, other Jews : revisiting Jewish secularism in America / Laura Levitt -- Disappearances : race, religion, and the progress narrative of U.S. feminism / Tracy Fessenden -- Late secularism / Robert J. Baird -- What tangled webs we weave : science, secularism, and religion in contemporary India / Banu Subramaniam -- Part II: Secular relations : micronarratives -- Secularizing the pain of footbinding in China : missionary and medical stagings of the universal body / Angela Zito -- Ghostly appearances / Geeta Patel -- "The quick, the dead, and the yet unborn" : untimely sexualities and secular hauntings / Molly McGarry -- Part III: Public alternatives -- Toward secular diaspora : relocating religion and politics / Tyler Roberts -- Feminisms and secularisms / Kathleen Sands -- Continuity or rupture? : an argument for secular Britain / Ranu Samantrai

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART 1. SECULAR INTERVENTIONS -- CHAPTER ONE. (Un)veiling feminism -- CHAPTER TWO. Secularism and laicism in turkey -- CHAPTER THREE. Women between community and state: some implications of the uniform civil code debates -- CHAPTER FOUR. Other moderns, other jews: revisiting jewish secularism in america -- CHAPTER FIVE. Disappearances: race, religion, and the progress narrative of U.S. feminism -- CHAPTER SIX. Late secularism -- CHAPTER SEVEN. What tangled webs we weave: science, secularism, and religion in contemporary India -- PART 2. SECULAR RELATIONS: MICRONARRATIVES -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Secularizing the pain of footbinding in china: missionary and medical stagings of the universal body -- CHAPTER NINE. Ghostly appearances -- CHAPTER TEN. "The quick, the dead, and the yet unborn": untimely sexualities and secular hauntings -- PART 3. PUBLIC ALTERNATIVES -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Toward secular diaspora: relocating religion and politics -- CHAPTER TWELVE. Feminisms and secularisms -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Continuity or rupture? an argument for secular Britain -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX

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