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Tracy Fessenden teaches in the Department of Religious Studies and the Program in Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University. She is the author, most recently, of Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature (Princeton UP, 2007); “’The Secular’ as Opposed to What?” (New Literary History 38.4 [Autumn 2007]); and of contributions to the volumes Catholics in the Movies, ed. Colleen McDannell (Oxford UP, 2007) and Secularisms, ed. Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini (Duke UP, 2008).
The current campaign within the Archdiocese of New York to canonize the radical activist Dorothy Day (1897-1980) offers a good example of what Elizabeth Povinelli in her December 13 post (“Can Sex be a Minor Form of Spitting?”) calls the “mutual conditions and secret agreements” that tie the sexual revolution and Catholic teaching together behind [...]
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