Performing the Secular: Religion, Representation, and Politics

ISBN-13: 9781137496072 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 258 str.

Milija Gluhovic; Jisha Menon

Opis

Performing the Secular explores the itineraries of 'the secular' within the modern world. Recent events such as the ongoing crises over the sex abuse scandals within the Catholic Church, the ire over the Danish cartoons of Prophet Muhammad, the hijab controversy in Europe and the demolition of the Babri mosque in India by right-wing Hindu groups exposes the fragility of claims of a secular public sphere. The increasing public contestations of the secular ideal mobilize passionate performances through claims and counter-claims that confirm the importance of religion in public life. This volume critically examines the implicit assumptions that undergird the category of the 'secular' through the lens of performance, redressing the lacunae within standard political science accounts of secularism.

Spis treści

Foreword; Rustom Bharucha.- 1. Introduction: Performing the Secular: Religion, Politics, and the Public Sphere;  Milija Gluhovic and Jisha Menon.- 2. Of Hypocrisy: “Wherein the Action and Utterance of the Stage, Bar, and Pulpit are Distinctly Considered.”; Jane Taylor.- 3. Dangerous Images: Theatre and the transnational public sphere; Chris Balme.-  4. The “Secular Designs” of Wole Soyinka; Avishek Ganguly.-  5. This worldly wonderment: Contemporary British theatre and postsecularism; Chris Megson.- 6. Kamikaze specters and transgenerational memories in Winds of God; Jessica Nakamura.- 7. “Face-to-Face”: Open Secularism and the Politics of Display in Quebec’s Bouchard-Taylor Commission;  Jordana Cox.-  8. Sacred Values and Secular Evangelism in the Bill Nye-Ken Ham Debate; John Fletcher.- 9. Making the Sacred Public: Women, Performance and Protest in Contemporary Manipur; Trina Banerjee.- 10. Ever, Again: Psychoanalysis, Secular Time, and the Performance of Witness; Ann Pellegrini.

O autorze

Milija Gluhovic is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Warwick, UK. His monograph Performing European Memories: Trauma, Ethics, Politics and an edited volume titled Performing the ‘New’ Europe: Identities, Feelings, and Politics in the Eurovision Song Contest (with Karen Fricker) were published in 2013.

Jisha Menon is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at Stanford University, USA. She is the author of The Performance of Nationalism: India, Pakistan, and the Memory of Partition (2013) and co-editor of Violence Performed (2009).