This book sheds an interdisciplinary light on 'transforming bodies': bodies that have been subjected to, contributed to, or have resisted social transformations within religious or secular contexts in contemporary Europe.

List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Transforming Bodies and Religions: Introduction; Part 1 - Governing Bodies; Introduction to Governing Bodies-Jelle O. Wiering, An van Raemdonck, Anne-Marie Korte;1 The Secular Body in the Dutch Field of Sexual Health-Jelle O. Wiering; 2 SRHR, The Liberated Body and the Primacy of Conscience: Probing Beyond The Secular/Religious Binary-An van Raemdonck; 3 Blasphemous Popular Art, Queer Debate and the Religious/Secular Divide.-Anne-Marie Korte; Part 2 - Narrating Bodies; Introduction to Narrating Bodies-Nella van den Brandt, Mariecke van den Berg, Megan Milota, Nawal Mustafa, Matthea Westerduin; 4 Negotiating Difference and Transformation: Women's Stories of Conversion to Judaism and Islam-Nella van den Brandt; 5 Embodying Transformation: Religious and Gender Transitions in Jewish Autobiography-Mariecke van den Berg; 6 "The Richest Material for Moral Reflection": Narrated Bodies and Narrative Ethics-Megan Milota; 7 Exploring New Vocabularies in Conversations About Religion, Race, Politics, and Justice-Nawal Mustafa, Matthea Westerduin; Part 3 - Negotiating Bodies; Introduction to Negotiating Bodies-Maria Vliek, Rahil Roodsaz, Lieke Schrijvers; 8 (Re)Negotiating Embodiment When Moving Out of Islam: An Empirical Inquiry into 'A Secular Body'-Maria Vliek; 9 Vacillating In and Out of Whiteness: Non-Religiosity and Racial (Dis)identification among the Iranian-Dutch-Rahil Roodsaz; 10 Women Wearing the Tallit: Tracing Gender, Belonging, and Conversion of New Jewish Women-Lieke L. Schrijvers; Part 4 - Afterword; Corporate, Corporal, Collective: Reflections on Gender, Genres, and the Ongoing Troubling of the Categories of Religion and the Secular-Pamela Klassen