{"product_id":"nonreligious-lifeworlds-in-egypt-sense-making-emotion-and-embodiment-hardback-9781477333358","title":"Nonreligious Lifeworlds in Egypt; Sense-Making, Emotion, and Embodiment (Hardback) 9781477333358","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eNonreligious Lifeworlds in Egypt\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSense-Making, Emotion, and Embodiment\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKarin van Nieuwkerk (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477333358, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 June 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e300 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm, 0.681 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eNonreligious Lifeworlds in Egypt\u003c\/i\u003e is an engaging and compelling study enhanced by statements from interviewees that are quite revealing and provide a sense of real lived experience. In addition, van Nieuwkerk’s understanding of the social and political dynamics of contemporary Egypt adds nuance and relevance to the analysis\" - Marcia K. Hermansen, Coeditor of \u003ci\u003eSufism in Western Contexts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Karin van Nieuwkerk’s book will be an enormous contribution to the growing study of nonreligion and is one of the yet rare scholarly accounts of atheists beyond the West and the East (former post-Soviet countries). It makes significant methodological and conceptual contributions by highlighting the significance of ethics, life choices, embodiment, and emotions as well as ambivalence and ambiguity in the trajectory of nonreligious people—calling into question notions of atheism as simply a cognitive and rational position.\" - Mascha Schulz, Coeditor of \u003ci\u003eGlobal Sceptical Publics: From Non-Religious Print Media to \"Digital Atheism\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn analysis of the growing visibility of nonreligion in Egypt.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEgypt's 2011 Uprising, while often perceived as a failed revolution, nonetheless nonetheless had durable social effects. Among these has been a rise in expressing atheism and agnosticism, especially among educated and affluent youth—the country’s future leaders.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn intimate ethnography, \u003ci\u003eNonreligious Lifeworlds in Egypt\u003c\/i\u003e explores the intellectual and emotional transformations of atheists and agnostics inspired by the aspirational freedom-seeking of the Arab Spring. Rejecting both of Egypt’s dominant religious traditions, Islam and Coptic Christianity, nonreligious people are widely viewed as agents of moral outrage. Amid media-driven panics, their sanity is often questioned by their own families as they experiment with new ways of living and relating. Drawing from in-depth fieldwork, interviews, and social media analysis, Karin van Nieuwkerk reveals her interlocutors’ changing perspectives on sex and gender, eating and drinking, and life and death. Above all, she emphasizes the affective experiences of renouncing religion, marked by anxiety and regret—but also liberation and relief. With rigor and compassion, Van Nieuwkerk opens our minds to the arduous process of exchanging established norms for self-determination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part I. Sensibilities and Polarization Around Nonreligion \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 1. A Recent Spread of Atheism? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 2. The Revolution and Beyond \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 3. What Are Nonreligion and Atheism in the Egyptian Context? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 4. Representing the “\u003cbr\u003eOther”\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 5. Ambivalent Self-Identifications and Shifting (Non)religious Positions \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part II. Affective Trajectories Toward Nonreligion \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 6. Divine Love and Fear: Shifting Emotional Attachments to God \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 7. Doubt, Confusion, and Anxiety \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 8. Anger and Regret \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 9. Letting Go of Religion and the Relief of Laughter \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 10. Articulations of Individuality \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 11. Emotional Responses of Significant Others \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part III. Lived Nonreligion \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 12. Tactics of Hiding and Revealing Nonreligion \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 13. Embodying Nonreligion \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 14. Sexuality and the Body \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 15. “\u003cbr\u003eMixed”\u003cbr\u003e Partnerships and Gender Relations \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 16. Nonreligious Outlooks on Life: Ordinary Ethics, Life, and Death \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 17. Lifeworlds \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Notes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e References \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52591022014744,"sku":"9781477333358","price":37.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/nonreligious-lifeworlds-in-egypt-sense-making-emotion-and-embodiment-hardback-9781477333358","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}