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Zusatztext This volume offers fascinating insights into a previously unknown world of secular feelings in everyday life, ranging from Istanbul to Montreal. At the same time, it is a crucial, highly innovative contribution to the question of how to come to a theoretical framing appropriate to the study of the emotional grammar of the secular. Informationen zum Autor Monique Scheer is Professor of Historical and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Tübingen, Germany. Nadia Fadil is Associate Professor at the IMMRC (Interculturalism, Migration and Minorities Research Centre) at the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium. Birgitte Schepelern Johansen is Associate Professor at Center for Advanced Migration Studies (AMIS), University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Vorwort This book explores the embodiments, affects and emotions of the secular, using empirical case studies and concepts from the history and anthropology of emotions. Zusammenfassung This 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...
