Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference

By: Linell E. Cady

Book Overview

Global struggles over women's roles, rights, and dress increasingly cast the secular and the religious in tense if not violent opposition. When advocates for equality speak in terms of rights and modern progress, or reactionaries ground their authority in religious and scriptural appeals, both tend to presume women's emancipation is ineluctably tied to secularization. Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference upsets this certainty...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231162499
• ISBN13: 9780231162494
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher