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Asad, Talal. Formations of the Secular. Stanford: Stanford
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Asad, Talal, Judith Butler, Saba Mahmood and Wendy Brown. Is
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Bamforth, Nicholas and David A. J. Richards. Patriarchal Religion,
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Barad, Karen. Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and
the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Durham: Duke, 2007.
Berlant, Lauren. The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of
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Brasher, Brenda and Lee Quinby (eds.). Gender and Apocalyptic
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Burlein, Ann. Lift High the Cross: Where Supremacy and the
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Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of
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Castelli, Elizabeth A. "Women, Gender, Religion: Troubling Categories
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Cooper, Melinda. Life as Surplus: Biotechnology and Capitalism in
the Neoliberal Era. Seattle: University of Washington, 2008.
Douglas, Mary. Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of
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Foucault, Michel and Jeremy R. Carrette, ed. Religion and
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Hart, William D. Edward Said and the Religious Effects of
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Jakobsen, Janet and Ann Pellegrini, eds. Secularisms. Durham
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