Performing the Secular Religion, Representation, and Politics

With a foreword from Rustom Bharucha, this book is a timely anthology which aims to unsettle our habituated modes of thinking about the place of the secular in cultural productions. The last decade alone has witnessed many religious protests against cultu

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Milija Gluhovic and Jisha Menon Contemporary Performance InterActions Series editors: Elaine Aston and Brian Singleton

Contemporary Performance InterActions Series editors Elaine Aston Institute for the Contemporary Arts Lancaster University Lancaster, UK Brian Singleton School of Drama, Film and Music Trinity College Dublin Dublin, Ireland

Aims of the Series Theatre’s performative InterActions with the politics of sex, race and class, with questions of social and political justice, form the focus of the Contemporary Performance InterActions series. Performative InterActions are those that aspire to affect, contest or transform. International in scope, CPI publishes monographs and edited collections dedicated to the InterActions of contemporary practitioners, performances and theatres located in any world context. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14918

Milija Gluhovic · Jisha Menon Editors

Performing the Secular Religion, Representation, and Politics

Editors Milija Gluhovic University of Warwick Coventry, UK

Jisha Menon Department of Theatre and Performance  Studies Stanford University Palo Alto, CA, USA

Contemporary Performance InterActions ISBN 978-1-137-49607-2 ISBN 978-1-137-49608-9  (eBook) DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-49608-9 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017935014 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover image © Design Pics Inc/Alamy Stock Photo Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Macmillan Publishers Ltd. The registered company address is: The Campus, 4 Crinan Street, London, N1 9XW