Interrogating Religious, Sexuality, and Gender Identities in Post-Secular Societies
摘要
This chapter seeks to interrogate the functioning of identities formed by religious beliefs or markers of sex, gender, and sexuality in post-secular societies. Drawing on insights from critical theory, it proposes that an understanding of the role of the state in the post-secular is of vital importance for understanding the way in which identity and authority inter-connect in contemporary society and for interrogating the tension apparent between them. This tension arises from the revelation of the managerial post-secular order when confronted with identity markers which refuse the supposed emptiness of the post-secular/post-modern/post-liberal ideal.