Institutional Formations of the “Secular”

Join this talk as part of the AUC-FEPS Political Science Joint Seminar discussing state-sponsored female preaching in Egypt.

The study of the secular has transcended its narrow definition by some as the rift between religion and the practice of the state and state policy to a more complex configuration where the state is the one defining the boundaries for neutrality to operate. Drawing from a broader ongoing project on the recent state-sponsored female preaching in Egypt and the question of women’s agency and empowerment, the study poses the question as to whether the form of religiosity fostered by the state could be taken as a token of imposing institutional forms of the secular. 

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