Geographies of Postsecularity: Re-envisioning Politics, Subjectivity and Ethics

This book explores the emerging geographies of postsecularity and argues that it offers a hopeful possibility for sharing common life and caring for social justice, well-being, equality, solidarity, and respect for difference. It highlights the contested formation of ethical subjectivity under neoliberalism and the emergence of postsecularity as an ethically-attuned politics that changes relations between religion and secularity and animates novel imaginations, subjectivities, and praxes as alternatives to neoliberal norms. The book examines the spaces and subjectivities of emergent postsecularity through innovative case studies and traces the global conditions for postsecularity beyond the Western and predominantly Christian-secular nexus of engagement.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 240 pages
\n Publication date: 30 September 2020
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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This book delves into the intriguing possibility that emerging geographies of postsecularity can make substantial contributions to our understanding of how common life can be shared and how caring for the shared goods of social justice, well-being, equality, solidarity, and respect for difference can be envisioned and enacted. By drawing on recent geographic theory to recalibrate notions of the postsecular public sphere, the authors argue for postsecularity as a condition of being characterized by practices of receptive generosity, rapprochement between religious and secular ethics, and a hopeful re-enchantment and re-shaping of desire towards common life.

The authors highlight the contested formation of ethical subjectivity under neoliberalism and the emergence of postsecularity within this process as an ethically-attuned politics that reshapes relations between religion and secularity and animates novel, hopeful imaginations, subjectivities, and praxes as alternatives to neoliberal norms. Through a series of innovative case studies, including food banks, drug and alcohol treatment, refugee humanitarian activism in Calais, homeless participatory art projects, and community responses to the Christchurch earthquakes in New Zealand, among others, the book examines the spaces and subjectivities of emergent postsecularity.

Moreover, the book extends its exploration of postsecularity beyond the Western and predominantly Christian-secular nexus of engagement. It offers valuable insights for students in various academic disciplines, including geography, sociology, politics, religious studies, international development, and anthropology. It will be of great interest to secular and faith-based practitioners working in religion, spirituality, politics, or more broadly in public policy.

\n Weight: 386g\n
Dimension: 155 x 234 x 12 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780367662561\n \n