Kathleen McPhillips is a sociologist of religion and gender in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

Naomi Goldenberg is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada.

Introduction

1. The Religious is Political

Naomi Goldenberg

2. Religion as a Vestigial State: A Comment on Religion, Gender and Violence

Kathleen McPhillips

3. Towards an Understanding of Femicide: Contemporary (Patriarchal) State Violence in Juárez, Mexico

Larisa Garrett

4. E Pluribus Patriarchy: Religion and State in the Contemporary US

Elizabeth A. Pritchard

5. Multifaithism and Secularism in the UK

Sukhwant Dhaliwal

6. Vestigial State Theory and Law in Canada: A Critical Response

Peggy Schmeiser

7. Church and State Power in Canada: The Colonial Project and its Continued Impact on Indigenous Women

Barbara Greenberg

8. Ceremony and the Symbolic Re-Appropriation of Indigeneity: A Feminist Critique of Settler Colonialism in a Progressive Liberal Democratic Nation-State

Stacie Swain

9. The Liberalisation of Modern Catholic Social Thought: Contextualising Catholic Anti-Feminism and Homophobia in a Vestigial State

Andrew Pump

10. The End of Religion-The End of Man

Geraldine Finn

11. Iconographies of Modernity: Figures of Religion, Authority and Gender in the 'Secular' State

Yvonne Sherwood