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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 the systematic disempowerment of women and marginalized groups.
Utilising feminist and post-colonial analysis of access, equity and violence, contributors draw on recent critical theory to collapse accepted boundaries between religion and secularity with the aim of understanding that religion is a technology of governance in its function, meaning and history.
The volume includes case studies focusing on how the category of religion is deployed to perpetuate male hegemony and racist inequities in Australia, Mexico, the United States, Britain and Canada. This trenchant feminist critique and academic analysis will be of key interest to scholars and students of Religion, Sociology, Political Science and Gender Studies.
Contents
Introduction
The Religious is Political
Naomi Goldenberg
Religion as a Vestigial State: A Comment on Religion, Gender and Violence
Kathleen McPhillips
Towards an Understanding of Femicide: Contemporary (Patriarchal) State Violence in Juárez, Mexico
Larisa Garrett
E Pluribus Patriarchy: Religion and State in the Contemporary US
Elizabeth A. Pritchard
Multifaithism and Secularism in the UK
Sukhwant Dhaliwal
Vestigial State Theory and Law in Canada: A Critical Response
Peggy Schmeiser
Church and State Power in Canada: The Colonial Project and its Continued Impact on Indigenous Women
Barbara Greenberg
Ceremony and the Symbolic Re-Appropriation of Indigeneity: A Feminist Critique of Settler Colonialism in a Progressive Liberal Democratic Nation-State
Stacie Swain
The Liberalisation of Modern Catholic Social Thought: Contextualising Catholic Anti-Feminism and Homophobia in a Vestigial State
Andrew Pump
The End of Religion—The End of Man
Geraldine Finn
Iconographies of Modernity: Figures of Religion, Authority and Gender in the 'Secular' State
Yvonne Sherwood
