Field: Nation, Religion, and Modernity
Examiner: Rebecca Nedostup
GENERAL THEORY AND COLLECTIONS
Asad, Talal. Genealogies of Religion: Disciplines and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam
----------- Formations of the secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity
Durkheim, Emile, Selected Writings (ed.) Anthony Giddens
Geertz, Clifford, The Interpretation of Cultures
Orsi, Robert A. “The Disciplinary Vocabulary of Modernity,” in International Journal (Autumn
2004)
Stoller, Paul, “Rationality,” in Critical Terms for Religious Studies, Mark C. Taylor (ed)
Washburn, Denis and A. Kevin Reinhart (eds.) Converting Cultures: Religion, Ideology and
Transformations of Modernity
Weber, Max. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
RELIGION AND THE NATION STATE
Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Beaune, Colette. The Birth of an Ideology: Myths and Symbols of Nation in Late-medieval France
Bellah, Robert N. “Civic Religion in America,” in Daedalus 117:3 (Summer 1988 [Reprinted from
Winter 1967]
Comaroff, John L. and Jean Comaroff. Of Reveleation and Revolution, Volume 2: The Dialectics of
Modernity on a South African Frontier
Gelvin, James L. “Secularism and Religion in the Arab Middle East: Reinventing Islam in a World
of Nation-States,” in The Invention of Religion: Rethinking Belief in Politics and History. Derek R.
Petterson and Darren R. Walhof (eds.)
Gentile, Emilio. “Fascism as Political Religion,” in the Journal of Contemporary History 25:2-3 (1990)
Hobsbawm, Eric, “Introduction,” to The Invention of Tradition. Hobsbawm and Ranger (eds.)
Keddie, Nikkie R. “The New Religious Politics: When Where and Why Do ‘Fundamentalisms’
Appear?” in Comparative Studies in Society and History (1998)
Lane, Christel, The Rites of Rulers: Ritual in Industiral Society – The Soviet Case
Ozouf, Festivals and the French Revolution
Pandey, Gyanendra. The Construction of Communalism in North India
Schmidt, Leigh Eric. Hearing Things: Religion, Illusion, and the American Enlightenment
RELIGION, WOMEN AND AGENCY
Abu-Lughod, Lila (ed.) Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East
----------- “The Romance of Resistance: Tracing Transformation of Power through Bedouin
Women,” American Ethnologist, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Feb. 1990)
Ahmed, Leila. Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate
Badran, Margot. Feminists, Islam and Nation: Gender and the Making of Modern Egypt
Das, Veena. “Cultural Rights and the Definition of a Community,” in The Rights of Subordinated
Peoples, Oliver Mendlsohn and Upendra Baxi (eds.)
Ebadi, Shirin. Iran Awakening: One Woman’s Journey to Reclaim Her Life and Her Country
Gole, Nilufer. The Forbidden Modern: Civilization and Veiling
Haniffa, Farzanna, “Piety as Politics amongst Muslim women in Contemporary Sri Lanka,” Modern
Asian Studies, 42:2-3 (2008)
Howland, Courtney W. (ed.) Religious Fundamentalisms and the Human Rights of Women
Huq, Mainmuna. “Reading the Qur’an in Bangladesh: The Politics of ‘Belief’ among Islamist
Women,” MAS, 42:2-3
Mahmood, Saba. Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject
Marsden, Magnus. “Women, Politics, and Islamism in Northern Pakistan,” MAS, 42:2-3
O’Hanlon, Rosalind. “Recovering the Subject: Subaltern Studies and Histories of Resistance in
Colonial South Asia,”MAS, 22:1
Sarkar, Tanika and Urvashi Butalia (eds.) Women and Right Wing Movements: Indian Experiences
Scott, Joan Wallach. The Politics of the Veil
Sen, Atreyee. Shiv Sena Women: Violence and Communalism in a Bombay Slum
Shehabuddin, Elora. “Jamaat-i-Islami in Bangladesh: Women, Democracy and the Transformation
of Islamist Politics,” MAS, 42:2-3
Spivak, Gayatri Chakarvorty. “Can the Subaltern Speak?” in Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture.
Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg (eds.)
Vatuk, Sylvia. “Islamic Feminism in India: Indian Muslim Women Activists and the Reform of
Muslim Personal Law.” MAS, 42:2-3
RELIGION AND MODERNITY: EUROPE, ASIA AND IMPERIALISM
Cohn, Bernard. Colonialism and its Forms of Knowledge: The British in India
Daughton, J.P. An Empire Divided: Religion, Republicanism, and the Making of French Colonialism
Dunch, Ryan. “Beyond Cultural Imperialism: Cultural Theory, Christian Missions, and Global
Modernity,” History and Theory, 41:3
Goossaert, Vincent. “1898: The Beginning of the End for Chinese Religion?” Journal of Asian Studies,
65:2
Hall, Catherine. Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830-1867
Keane, Webb. Christian Moderns: Freedom and Fetish in the Mission Encounter
Masuzawa, Tomoko. The Invention of World Religions: Or How European Universalism Was Preserved in the
Language of Pluralism
Owen, Alex. The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern
Reinders, Eric. Borrowed Gods and Foreign Bodies: Christian Missionaries Imagine Chinese Religion
Sinha, Mrinalini. Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire
Van der Veer, Peter and Hartmut Lehman (eds.) Nation and Religion: Perspectives on Europe and Asia
Van der Veer, Peter. Imperial Encounters: Religion and Modernity in India and Britain
Viswanathan, Gauri. Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity and Belief