Contemporary Religiosities : : Emergent Socialities and the Post-Nation-State / / ed. by Bruce Kapferer, Annelin Eriksen, Kari Telle.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bastin, Rohan,; Bubandt, Nils,; Comaroff, Jean,; Comaroff, John L.,; Devji, Faisal,; Engelke, Matthew,; Eriksen, Annelin,; Kapferer, Bruce,; Lincoln, Bruce,; Otto, Ton,; Robbins, Joel,; Telle, Kari,
• HerausgeberIn: Eriksen, Annelin,; Kapferer, Bruce,; Telle, Kari,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (220 p.)

The last decade has seen an unexpected return of the religious, and with it the creation of new kinds of social forms alongside new fusions of political and religious realms that high modernity kept distinct. For a fuller understanding of what this means for society in the context of globalization, it is necessary to rethink the relationship between the religious and the secular; the contributors - all leading scholars in anthropology - do just that, some even arguing that secularization itself now takes a religious form. Combining theoretical reflection with vivid ethnographic explorations, this essential collection is designed to advance a critical understanding of social and personal religious experience in today's world.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Religiosities toward a Future—in Pursuit of the New Millennium -- Chapter 1 The Politics of Conviction: Faith on the Neo-liberal Frontier -- Chapter 2 Strategic Secularism: Bible Advocacy in England -- Chapter 3 Pentecostal Networks and the Spirit of Globalization: On the Social Productivity of Ritual Forms -- Chapter 4 Healing the Nation: In Search of Unity through the Holy Spirit in Vanuatu -- Chapter 5 What Happened to Cargo Cults? Material Religions in Melanesia and the West -- Chapter 6 Gold for a Golden Age: Sacred Money and Islamic Freedom in a Global Sufi Order -- Chapter 7 Sri Lankan Civil Society and Its Fanatics -- Chapter 8 Dharma Power: Searching for Security in Post–New Order Indonesia -- Chapter 9 An Ancient Case of Interrogation and Torture -- Chapter 10 The Terrorist as Humanitarian -- Chapter 11 Reflections on the Rise of Legal Theology: Law and Religion in the Twenty-First Century -- Index