diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3cdc3fc..49c2a55 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 ## 0.0.8 (unreleased)
 
 - Parallelize all the things
+- Remove `section` from the `page` rendering context: this is too expensive. Use
+the global function `get_section` if you need to get it
 
 ## 0.0.7 (2017-06-19)
 
diff --git a/src/bin/rebuild.rs b/src/bin/rebuild.rs
index ecebc55..7ae3945 100644
--- a/src/bin/rebuild.rs
+++ b/src/bin/rebuild.rs
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ pub fn after_content_change(site: &mut Site, path: &Path) -> Result<()> {
             // Front matter didn't change, only content did
             // so we render only the section page, not its content
             if current.meta == prev.meta {
-                return site.render_page(&current, find_parent_section(site, &current));
+                return site.render_page(&current);
             }
 
             // Front matter changed
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ pub fn after_content_change(site: &mut Site, path: &Path) -> Result<()> {
                         site.render_index()?;
                     },
                     PageChangesNeeded::Render => {
-                        site.render_page(&site.pages[path], find_parent_section(site, &current))?;
+                        site.render_page(&site.pages[path])?;
                     },
                 };
             }
diff --git a/src/content/page.rs b/src/content/page.rs
index 0f47ffd..dcfcc7a 100644
--- a/src/content/page.rs
+++ b/src/content/page.rs
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ use rendering::context::Context;
 use fs::{read_file};
 use content::utils::{find_related_assets, get_reading_analytics};
 use content::file_info::FileInfo;
-use content::{Header, Section};
+use content::{Header};
 
 
 #[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq)]
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ impl Page {
     }
 
     /// Renders the page using the default layout, unless specified in front-matter
-    pub fn render_html(&self, tera: &Tera, config: &Config, section: Option<&Section>) -> Result<String> {
+    pub fn render_html(&self, tera: &Tera, config: &Config) -> Result<String> {
         let tpl_name = match self.meta.template {
             Some(ref l) => l.to_string(),
             None => "page.html".to_string()
@@ -147,7 +147,6 @@ impl Page {
         context.add("page", self);
         context.add("current_url", &self.permalink);
         context.add("current_path", &self.path);
-        context.add("section", &section);
 
         tera.render(&tpl_name, &context)
             .chain_err(|| format!("Failed to render page '{}'", self.file.path.display()))
diff --git a/src/site.rs b/src/site.rs
index 4ed5516..362c556 100644
--- a/src/site.rs
+++ b/src/site.rs
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ impl Site {
     }
 
     /// Renders a single content page
-    pub fn render_page(&self, page: &Page, section: Option<&Section>) -> Result<()> {
+    pub fn render_page(&self, page: &Page) -> Result<()> {
         ensure_directory_exists(&self.output_path)?;
 
         // Copy the nesting of the content directory if we have sections for that page
@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ impl Site {
         create_directory(&current_path)?;
 
         // Finally, create a index.html file there with the page rendered
-        let output = page.render_html(&self.tera, &self.config, section)?;
+        let output = page.render_html(&self.tera, &self.config)?;
         create_file(&current_path.join("index.html"), &self.inject_livereload(output))?;
 
         // Copy any asset we found previously into the same directory as the index.html
@@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ impl Site {
             section
                 .pages
                 .par_iter()
-                .map(|p| self.render_page(&p, Some(section)))
+                .map(|p| self.render_page(&p))
                 .fold(|| Ok(()), Result::and)
                 .reduce(|| Ok(()), Result::and)?;
         }
@@ -614,7 +614,7 @@ impl Site {
         ensure_directory_exists(&self.output_path)?;
 
         for page in self.get_all_orphan_pages() {
-            self.render_page(page, None)?;
+            self.render_page(page)?;
         }
 
         Ok(())
diff --git a/test_site/templates/page.html b/test_site/templates/page.html
index 25bdbf8..25e0455 100644
--- a/test_site/templates/page.html
+++ b/test_site/templates/page.html
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 {% extends "index.html" %}
 
 {% block content %}
-    {% if section %}Section:{{ section.permalink }}{% endif %}
     {{ page.content | safe }}
 
     {% if page.previous %}Previous article: {{ page.previous.permalink }}{% endif %}
diff --git a/tests/site.rs b/tests/site.rs
index d247fd5..feaf8ce 100644
--- a/tests/site.rs
+++ b/tests/site.rs
@@ -132,9 +132,6 @@ fn can_build_site_without_live_reload() {
     // Both pages and sections are in the sitemap
     assert!(file_contains!(public, "sitemap.xml", "<loc>https://replace-this-with-your-url.com/posts/simple/</loc>"));
     assert!(file_contains!(public, "sitemap.xml", "<loc>https://replace-this-with-your-url.com/posts/</loc>"));
-
-    // section is in the page context
-    assert!(file_contains!(public, "posts/python/index.html", "Section:"));
 }
 
 #[test]