Religion, Politics, and Globalization : : Anthropological Approaches / / ed. by alina, Don Handelman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Amiras, Mira Z.,; Berglund, Henrik,; Coleman, Simon,; Handelman, Don,; Hicks, David,; Innis, Robert E.,; Jackson, Michael,; Lindquist, Galina,; Rosander, Eva Evers,; Thurfjell, David,
• HerausgeberIn: Handelman, Don,; alina, ,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (316 p.)

While social scientists, beginning with Weber, envisioned a secularized world, religion today is forthrightly becoming a defining feature of life all around the globe. The complex connections between religion and politics, and the ways in which globalization shapes these processes, are central themes explored in this volume by leading scholars in the field of religion. Does the holism of numerous past and present day cosmologies mean that religions with their holistic orientations are integral to human existence? What happens when political ideologies and projects are framed as transcendental truths and justified by Divine authority? How are individual and collective identities shaped by religious rhetoric, and what are the consequences? Can mass murder, deemed terrorism, be understood as a form of ritual sacrifice, and if so, what are the implications for our sensibilities and practices as scholars and citizens? Using empirical material, from historical analyses of established religions to the everyday strife of marginalized groups such as migrants and dissident movements, this volume deepens the understanding of processes that shape the contemporary world.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- Preface -- After Understanding: A Memoir of Galina Lindquist -- Religion, Politics, and Globalization: The Long Past Foregrounding the Short Present—Prologue and Introduction -- I. Shaping Religion Through Politics -- 1. Ethnic Identity and Religious Competition: Buddhism and Shamanism in Southern Siberia -- 2. The Global Constitution of Religious Nationalism: Hindutva and Globalization -- II. Open Confl icts Between Religion and Politics -- 3. Church Confronts State: The 2005 Manifestasaun in Timor-Leste -- 4. Religion, Secularism, and Politics in Contemporary Spain: The Case of the Imam of Fuengirola -- III. The Tight Embrace of Religion and Politics -- 5. Actors of History? Religion, Politics, and “Reality” within the Protestant Right in America -- 6. The Ambiguities of Islamism and a Century of Iranian Opposition -- IV. Opening New Space for Religion -- 7. Amazighité, Arab/Islamic Hegemony, and the Christian Evangelical Challenge -- 8. Self-Exploders, Self-Sacrifi ce, and the Rhizomic Organization of Terrorism -- Afterword: Fixation of Belief and the Dilemmas of Fallibility -- Notes on Contributors -- Index