Elaine Schnabel’s article, “White secularity: the racialization of religion in Netflix’s Unorthodox” was recently accepted for publication in Critical Studies in Media Communication.
Unorthodox is a four-episode Netflix series that offers a compelling narrative of freedom from religion for feminine subjects. This paper interrogates the vision of freedom offered by the show through the lens of lived religion (which circumvents the secular/religion dichotomy by treating the moral meaning-making practices of everyday life as “religious.”
Check it out here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15295036.2022.2056217