Table of Contents

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

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This book explores the embodiments, affects and emotions of the secular, using empirical case studies and concepts from the history and anthropology of emotions.

About the Author

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.

Reviews

This superb collection provides a powerful demonstration of the breadth of the secular as a key dimension of our feeling and acting as modern human beings. I am aware of no other volume that so amply documents what it is like, not simply to live in a secular age, but to live as a secular person.
*Charles Hirschkind, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University Of California, Berkeley, USA*

Is secularism inhabitable? With rich detail these studies push the discussion forward, offering new insights into the materiality and affect through which the ideas and values of the secular are made real.
*Webb Keane, George Herbert Mead Collegiate Professor of Anthropology, University Of Michigan, USA, and Author of Ethical Life (2015) and Christian Moderns (2006).*

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.
*Rebekka Habermas, Professor of Modern History at the University Of Göttingen, Germany.*