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...Ann Pellegrini This essay examines the role of sincerity in several recent US Supreme Court cases on religious freedom in which plaintiffs successfully sought religious exemptions from otherwise applicable state or federal laws: Hosanna-Tabor , Hobby Lobby , and Holt . Under a religious sincerity...

... narratives of secularism and European Enlightenment. This dominant story aligns secularism with universalism, reason, progress, freedom, and peace “versus” an irrational and atavistic religion. Though narrated as a universal project, secularism, in its dominant form, remains tied to a particular religion...

...; or, The Pastorate 2.0,” Ann Pellegrini draws on Foucault’s work in Security, Territory, and Population to consider how the liberal discourses of secularization encode contemporary religious freedom as a continuation of a pastoral Christian power that has strong racial implications. Beginning with such Supreme...

..., constitutionally securing freedom of religious belief, and other similar interventions. This is clearly in contrast to the modern secular state in the West, which oper- ates with a definition of secularism that places religion, treated as a matter of faith (worship...

... the Indian government in its “International Religious Freedom Report 2005, Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.”43 During the riots, there was little concern expressed by the interna- tional community and media. As one commentator wrote, A deceptively reassuring...

..., religious repression is the root of sexual regula- sexual regulation tion and hence freedom from religion is the answer to the problem. This traditional view plays into the larger Enlightenment narrative in which is constitutive of freedom from religion brings about...

... otherwise have deteriorated into various conflicts over political rights, religious freedoms, and conflicting racist mythologies. Indeed, this was historically the case. The fragile alliances defining the Aryan Nations were due as much to white identification as they were to the perceived threat...

... that accompany modernity and remain even in the “post”-modern moment signs of a failure to fully institute secular freedom? Or are they the signs that secular freedom carries its own dominations, which are not simply left over from a specifically religious history...

..., Political Theology . 56 Agamben, Kingdom and the Glory , xii . 57 Philippians 2:1–11 (New Revised Standard Version). 58 Taves, Religious Experience Reconsidered . 59 The mass killing of war should be distinguished from the concept of honor killings, which are distinguished...

... to the presumed and often prescribed separation between church and state within a nation that grants freedom of religious practice,17 a question that is equally pertinent in many other countries where religious movements have become part and parcel of the public sphere.18 While this article largely...

... of freedom as we know it.” In the era of queer liberalism, it would be a mistake to believe that, since sexual regulation seems to be based in religious intolerance and hate, the answer would be to defend secular freedom. “Our...

... as enthusiasm’s insovereign poetics of the breach—a breach of religious contract in the name of some other freedom. 65 From that breach, the sacred, in flight from sovereignty, understood as practices of what Stefano Harney and Fred Moten have recently called “self-owning, earth-owning” accumulation...

..., he was upright. The braying of the multitude, even if correct, could not assail the comfortable position of the tenured professor. My academic and political freedom trumped their prejudices. Still, the idea of the “campus radical,” the domesticated rabble-rouser who provides the academy...

... the way the global West thinks in terms of the oppositions between religiosity and secularism. Traditional- ism is equated with patriarchy, modernity with women’s freedom. She asks that religious practices in Islam not be viewed as a priori subordinat- ing women. Instead, women’s agency within...

... of “Infinite Justice,” stages this war as a religious war, and even as a holy war. It justifies this rhetoric through reference to the principle of self- defense, that process by which one is incited to war, and incited to 152 Rosalind C. Morris...

...-hundred- something coalition of progressive clergy called the Religious Coalition for the Freedom to Marry has signed a declaration that states, “From the shameful history of slavery in America, the injustice of forbidding people...

... for the Arts (NEA) crisis of 1989, the “Sensation” controversy was not exclusively about the border between art and the state, the freedom of art from political interference. The two other borders by which the art world has long defined itself were also at stake...

...Tomas Matza; Kevin Lewis O’Neill The will sits at the heart of everyday life for billions of people. Religious revival, democratization, and economic restructuring, to name but a few worldwide processes, routinely invoke the will of the people and the will of God while promoting will-full living...

... .” Journal of American History 102 , no. 3 ( 2015 ): 775 – 98 . Daulatzai Sohail . Black Star , Crescent Moon: The Muslim International and Black Freedom beyond America . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2012 . DeCaro LouisA. Jr. , On the Side of My People...

... (vigyaan), turns into Hindu spectacle, the visual evocation of a majority religious group in South Asia. Following the nuclear tests, Vajpayee was faced with explicating, and twisting, national feeling to form around what...