“Political secularism,” Saba Mahmood tells us in the opening pages of Religious Difference in a Secular Age, “is not merely the principle of state neutrality or the separation of church and state. It also entails the reordering and remaking of religious life and interconfessional relations in accord with specific norms, themselves foreign to the life of the religions and people it organizes” (20–21). Mahmood’s book engages the dynamics of this “reordering and remaking of religious life” in light of contemporary discussions of secularism and religious freedom.