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The End of Religion: Feminist Reappraisals of the State book cover

1st Edition

The End of Religion Feminist Reappraisals of the State

Edited By Kathleen McPhillips, Naomi Goldenberg Copyright 2021
244 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge
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Feminist theory has enhanced and expanded the agency, influence, status and contributions of women throughout the globe. However, feminist critical analysis has not yet examined how the assumption that religion is natural, timeless, universal and omnipresent supports sexist and race-based oppression. This book proposes radical new thinking about religion in order to better comprehend and confront... Read more

Introduction

  1. The Religious is Political

    2. Naomi Goldenberg

  2. Religion as a Vestigial State: A Comment on Religion, Gender and Violence

    3. Kathleen McPhillips

  3. Towards an Understanding of Femicide: Contemporary (Patriarchal) State Violence in Juárez, Mexico

    4. Larisa Garrett

  4. E Pluribus Patriarchy: Religion and State in the Contemporary US

    5. Elizabeth Pritchard

  5. Multifaithism and Secularism in the UK

    6. Sukhwant Dhaliwal

  6. Vestigial State Theory and Law in Canada: A Critical Response

    7. Peggy Schmeiser

  7. Church and State Power in Canada: The Colonial Project and its Continued Impact on Indigenous Women

    8. Barbara Greenberg

  8. Ceremony and the Symbolic Re-Appropriation of Indigeneity: A Feminist Critique of Settler Colonialism in a Progressive Liberal Democratic Nation-State

    9. Stacie Swain

  9. The Liberalisation of Modern Catholic Social Thought: Contextualising Catholic Anti-Feminism and Homophobia in a Vestigial State

    10. Andrew Pump

  10. The End of Religion—The End of Man

    11. Geraldine Finn

  11. Iconographies of Modernity: Figures of Religion, Authority and Gender in the ‘Secular’ State

          Yvonne Sherwood

Biography

Kathleen McPhillips is a sociologist of religion and gender in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

Naomi Goldenberg is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada.

'The book brings a new and different perspective to the relationship between church and state.' 

- Winifred Whelan, OSF, St. Bonaventure University, Reading Religion

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