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Mayanthi L. Fernando

Mayanthi L. Fernando is associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She works on religion, secularism, and embodiment, and is the author of The Republic Unsettled: Muslim French and the Contradictions of Secularism (Duke University Press, 2014). She is beginning a new project on nonhuman beings, the secular, and the post-humanist turn.

Sex, secularism, and “femonationalism”

A conversation between Sara Farris and Joan Wallach Scott

Mayanthi L. Fernando·

Sara Farris·

Joan Scott·

July 5, 2018

As the final installment of the series “Sex, secularism, and ‘femonationalism,’” Sara Farris, author of In the Name of Women’s Rights,…

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Is this all there is

Supernatureculture

Mayanthi L. Fernando·

December 11, 2017

I never thought much about ghosts until my cat Hoppy died.

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Indigeneity and secularity

Secularism and the Animist Indigene

Mayanthi L. Fernando·

July 27, 2017

In the prompt that we sent to the authors participating in this forum, Vincent Lloyd and I asked a series of questions…

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For Love of the Prophet

Taking the Islamic in “the Islamic state” seriously

Mayanthi L. Fernando·

April 13, 2017

I want to focus on Salomon’s argument that the secular state—in this case the British colonial one—is in the business…

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Religions and their publics

Short skirts and niqab bans: On sexuality and the secular body

Jennifer A. Selby·

Mayanthi L. Fernando·

September 4, 2014

Introduced in Québec in March 2010, Bill 94 proposed requiring women to unveil their faces if they wanted to work…

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