Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1 Introduction: Performing the Secular: Religion, Politics, and the Public Sphere ; Performance and Secular Public Spheres; References; Chapter 2 Of Hypocrisy: "Wherein the Action and Utterance of the Stage, Bar, and Pulpit are Distinctly Consider'd" ; The Secular and the Sacred: A Question of Performance?; 'Toler(n)ation'; All the World's a Theatre; ReformPerform; References; Chapter 3 Dangerous Images: Theatre and the Transnational Public Sphere ; The Mozart Scandal; Summary; References

Chapter 4 Thisworldly Wonderment: Contemporary British Theatre and Postsecularism The Postsecular Context; Paul; Constellations and The Effect; References; Chapter 5 The 'Secular Designs' of Wole Soyinka ; References; Chapter 6 Kamikaze Spectres and Transgenerational Memories in Winds of God ; References; Chapter 7 "Face-to-Face": Open Secularism and the Politics of Display in Quebec's Bouchard-Taylor Commission ; 'Dialogue Makes a Difference': Using Public Dialogue to Rethink the Secular; Reasonable Accommodation and 'Bad Scripts'

'Frank, Open Discussions [...] Tempered by Reason and Civility': Repertoires of Self-abstraction and Embodied ImmediacyOn 'Gobbledygook': Dialogue in Receptions; Open Secularism and Public Dialogue; Conclusions: Expanding Repertoires; References; Chapter 8 Sacred Values and Secular Evangelism in the Bill Nye-Ken Ham Debate ; Contextualizing Creation Evangelism; The Science Guy; Debating Debates; Sacred Spheres of Argument; The Debate; Conclusion: Cultural Cognitions and Ocular Democracy; References; Chapter 9 Making the Sacred Public: Women, Performance and Protest in Contemporary Manipur

IntroductionThe 'City' Space: The Site of Performance; An Event and Its 'Origins'; Women Walking the 'City'; Public Mourning as Politics; References; Chapter 10 Ever, Again: Psychoanalysis, Secular Time, and the Performance of Witness ; References; References; Index