Recasting secular thinking for emancipatory feminist practice

The renewed vitality of religion in political and public life has prompted reconsideration of established ideas about secularisation and secularism. In Western Europe, ethnocentric enforcements of secularism are implicated in oppressive practices directed at minority women and communities while reli...

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Auteur principal: Reilly, Niamh (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Sage [2017]
Dans: Social compass
Année: 2017, Volume: 64, Numéro: 4, Pages: 481-494
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Laïcité / Émancipation féminine
B Malaysia / Sisters in Islam / Islam / Laïcité / Émancipation féminine / Ethnocentrisme
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophie de la religion
AD Sociologie des religions
BJ Islam
Sujets non-standardisés:B Public Sphere
B Feminism
B Laïcité
B Islam
B Politique
B Religion
B secularismféminisme
B Politics
B Sécularisation
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Résumé:The renewed vitality of religion in political and public life has prompted reconsideration of established ideas about secularisation and secularism. In Western Europe, ethnocentric enforcements of secularism are implicated in oppressive practices directed at minority women and communities while religiously-justified authoritarian movements against rights for women and LGBTQ people continue to emerge. These ‘postsecular' challenges require recasting secular thinking within a wider re-theorisation of emancipatory feminist practice. This means recognising the positivity of religious subjectivities and norms in emancipatory political projects. It also entails rethinking the nature of the secular state and challenging oppressions emanating from enforced secularism no less than from coerced conformity to religious norms. The Musawah Framework for Action advanced by the Malaysian advocacy group Sisters in Islam is discussed to illustrate how secular thinking can be recast for emancipatory feminist practice to transform narrow Eurocentric accounts of secularism and patriarchal interpretations of secular and religious norms.
ISSN:1461-7404
Contient:Enthalten in: Social compass
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0037768617727484