This collection reframes the debate around Islam and women's rights within a broader comparative literature that examines the complex and contingent historical

The relationship between secularism, democracy, religion, and gender equality has been a complex one across Western democracies and still remains contested. Whe

The Islamic world has a poor record in terms of modernization and democracy. However, the source of this situation is not Islam, but factors including coloniali

The book offers a nuanced and innovative analyses of the emergence of an inclusive secular democratic state paradigm which incorporates the sacred within the fr

"Drawing on a wealth of scholarship by second-wave feminists and historians of religion, race, and colonialism, Scott shows that the gender equality invoked tod