Iftars, Prayer Rooms, and #DeleteUber

Abstract

Organizing among Muslim American workers lays bare Protestant Christian religious biases in purportedly secular institutions. Labor organizing surrounding nondiscrimination with regard to religious practices, like five daily prayers and iftars, reveals how the very structure of American workplaces cannot accommodate Muslim practice, not because of the nonreligious orientation of the workplace, but because of its unstated Christian orientation. The chapter proposes postsecularity as a category for understanding this religious phenomenon. Postsecularity prevents the expunging of religion from public spaces (as critics of "secularism" may fear or champions of the secular may celebrate) and enlivens Christian resistance to these particularly Christian forms of cooption and distortion that curtail interreligious cooperation and authentic religious practice by Christians, Muslims, and others alike.