Open AccessSekularitet - förstahet genom religion och kön
Author(s) -
Linda Berg,
Mikela Lundahl,
Lena Martinsson
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
kvinder, køn and forskning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2245-6937
pISSN - 0907-6182
DOI - 10.7146/kkf.v25i4.104394
Subject(s) - secularism , context (archaeology) , embodied cognition , sociology , subject (documents) , aesthetics , secular state , gender studies , religious studies , philosophy , epistemology , islam , political science , theology , law , history , politics , archaeology , library science , computer science
Secularities – firstness through religion and gender In this article we explore how positing religion as other simultaneously makes secularism a firstness. How is secularism embodied and reproduced as an objective and neutral space – a firstness. The secular subject is often represented as free and rational in contrast to an imagined religious, traditional, and often Muslim other. By studying Swedish contemporary debates about freedom of speech, veils, gender equality, and the in/tolerant society, we aim to unpack how secularism is done in a Swedish neoliberal contemporary context. Inspired by anthropologist of secularism, Talal Asad, we wish to contribute to the undermining of the tightly knit weave of secularism, reason and critique in Western discourse.