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Issue 9.3 | Summer 2011 — Religion and the Body

Recommended Reading

Ahlbäck, Tore, ed. Religion and the Body: based on papers read at the symposium on religion and the body held at Åbo, Finland, on the 16-18 June 2010. Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis 23. Åbo Donner Inst. for Research in Religious and Cultural History, 2011.

Asad, Talal. Genealogies of Religion. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993.

Asad, Talal. Formations of the Secular. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003.

Asad, Talal, Judith Butler, Saba Mahmood and Wendy Brown. Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury and Free Speech. Berkeley: UC Berkeley Press, 2009.

Bamforth, Nicholas and David A. J. Richards. Patriarchal Religion, Sexuality, and Gender: A Critique of the New Natural Law. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

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 Sentimentality in American Culture. Durham: Duke, 2008.

Brasher, Brenda and Lee Quinby (eds.). Gender and Apocalyptic Desire. London: Equinox Press, 2006.

Burlein, Ann. Lift High the Cross: Where Supremacy and the Religious Right Converge. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002.

Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, 2nd. ed. New York: Routledge, 1999.

Castelli, Elizabeth A. “Women, Gender, Religion: Troubling Categories and Transforming Knowledge” in Women, Gender, Religion: A Reader, Elizabeth A. Castelli (ed). New York: Palgrave 2001.

Castelli, Elizabeth A., ed. Women, Gender, Religion: A Reader. New York: Palgrave 2001.

Coakley, Sarah, ed. Religion and the Body. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

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 Pollution and Taboo. London: Routledge, 1984.

Eng, David L., David Kazanjian, and Judith Butler. Loss: The Politics of Mourning. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

Feher, Michel, with Ramona Naddaff and Nadia Tazi, eds. Fragments for a History of the Human Body, 3 vols. New York: Zone Books, 1989.

Foucault, Michel, The History of Sexuality. New York: Pantheon Books, 1985.

——. Abnormal. Tr. Graham Burchell. NY: Picador, 2003.

Foucault, Michel and Jeremy R. Carrette, ed. Religion and Culture. NY: Routledge, 1999.

Hart, William D. Edward Said and the Religious Effects of Culture. NY: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Jakobsen, Janet and Ann Pellegrini. Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance. New York: NYU Press, 2003.

Jakobsen, Janet and Ann Pellegrini, eds. Secularisms. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008.

Kay, Lily E. “In the Beginning was the Word?: The Genetic Code and the Book of Life,” pp. 224-33 in Mario Biagioli, ed., The Science Studies Reader. New York: Routledge, 1999.

——. Who Wrote the Book of Life?: A History of the Genetic Code. Stanford: Stanford University, 2000.

Khan, Shahnaz. Zina, Transnational Feminism, and the Moral Regulation of Pakistani Women. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006.

Kristeva, Julia. “Stabat Mater” in The Kristeva Reader, Toril Moi, ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986.

Law, Jane Marie, ed. Religious Reflections on the Human Body. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.

Levitt, Laura. Jews and Feminism: The Ambivalent Search for Home. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Mahmood, Saba. Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.

——. “Agency, Performativity, and the Feminist Subject” pp. 177-221 in E.T. Armour and S.M. St.Ville, eds., Bodily Citations: Religion and Judith Butler. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.

Moallem, Minoo. Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Cultural Politics of Patriarchy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

Muñoz, José. Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity. New York: NYU Press, 2009.

Narayan, Uma. Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions and Third World Feminisms. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Povinelli, Elizabeth A. The Empire of Love. Durham: Duke University, 2006.

Puar, Jasbir. Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times. Durham: Duke, 2007.

Sangari, Kumkum and Sudesh Vaid, eds. Recasting Women: Essays in Indian Colonial History. Delhi: Kali for Women, 1989.

Scarry, Elaine. The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Scott, David and Charles Hirschkind, eds. Powers of the Secular Modern: Talal Asad and His Interlocutors. Stanford: Stanford University, 2006.

Scott, Joan. The Politics of the Veil. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007.

Toor, Saadia. The State of Islam: Culture and Cold War Politics in Pakistan. London: Pluto Press, 2011.

Warner, Marina. Alone of All her Sex: The Myth and Cult of the Virgin Mary. New York: Vintage Books, 1983.

Warner, Michael. “Tongues Untied: Memoirs of a Pentecostal Boyhood” in Steven Bruh and Natasha Hurley, eds., Curiouser, On the Queerness of Children. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004.

Wilcox, Melissa. Coming Out in Christianity: Religion, Identity and Community. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003.