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dc.contributor.editorScheer, Monique
dc.contributor.editorFadil, Nadia
dc.contributor.editorJohansen, Birgitte Schepelern
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-14T14:54:26Z
dc.date.available2022-10-14T14:54:26Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifierONIX_20221014_9781350065246_153
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58822
dc.description.abstractThis book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on bloomsburycollections.com 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 is usually treated as a neutral background serving as the domain of public, rational deliberation. This book demonstrates that secularity and secularism are also upheld by bodily practices and emotional attachments. Drawing on empirical case studies, this is the first book to ask and explore whether a secular body exists. Building on the work of Talal Asad, the book argues that the secular is not an absence of religion, but a positive entity that comes about through its co-constitutive relationship with religion. And, once we attune ourselves to recognizing its operations as grammar which structures social practice, writing an anthropology of the secular could become a new possibility.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRA Religion: general::QRAX History of religionen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRA Religion: general::QRAM Religious issues and debates::QRAM2 Religion and politicsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRV Aspects of religion::QRVP Religious life and practiceen_US
dc.subject.otherHistory of religion
dc.subject.otherReligion and politics
dc.subject.otherAnthropology
dc.titleSecular Bodies, Affects and Emotions
dc.title.alternativeEuropean Configurations
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.5040/9781350065253
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b
oapen.relation.isbn9781350065246
oapen.relation.isbn9781350065239
oapen.imprintBloomsbury Academic
oapen.pages272
oapen.place.publicationLondon


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