Religion, Politics, and Globalization : : Anthropological Approaches /

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

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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 theme...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (316 p.)
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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

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