Contesting religious identities : : transformations, disseminations, and mediations / / edited by Bob Becking, Anne-Marie Korte, and Lucien van Liere.

• Superior document: Numen book series : studies in the history of religions, Volume 156
• TeilnehmendeR: Becking, Bob,; Korte, Anne-Marie,; Liere, Lucien van,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the history of religions ; Volume 156.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (315 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Contesting Religious Identities: An Introduction /; Interpreting ‘Movement’ within Religious Studies: An Introduction to ‘Territories and Diasporas’ /; Home of the Mother, Exile of the Father: Gender and Space in the Construction of Biblical Identity /; Western Christianity as Part of Postcolonial World Christianity: The ‘Body of Christ with AIDS’ as an Interstitial Space /; Religion, Media, and the Global /; Beyond Blind Faith: Religious Identities under the Conditions of Late Capitalism /; Broken Texts and Distorted Images: An Introduction to ‘Media and Texts’ /; Psychoapocalypse: Desiring the Ends of the World /; Dangerous Enthusiasm: An Aspect of the Clash between Cartesianism and Orthodoxy at Utrecht University /; Islam Controversies and Humour: Responses to Comedic Vlogs on the YouTube Battlefield /; Fulla, the Cover-up Girl. Identity Politics via a Doll? /; Resilience Beyond Mimesis, Humanism, Autonomy, and Exemplary Persons /; Embodied Faith as Bone of Contention: Introduction to ‘Bodies and Rituals’ /; Contesting Islam: The Making and Unmaking of Religious Faith /; Martyrdom as a Contested Practice in Rabbinic Judaism /; Conservative Evangelical Listening Practices and the Embodiment of Faith /; A Material History of Catholic Precarity in Amsterdam /; At the Threshold: A Panorama for Future Research and Challenges to Religious Studies /; Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004337458
• ISSN: 0169-8834
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Bob Becking, Anne-Marie Korte, and Lucien van Liere.

Religion is a hot topic on the public stages of ‘secular’ societies, not in its individualized liberal or orthodox form, but rather as a public statement, challenging the divide between the secular neutral space and the religious. In this new challenging modus, religion raises questions about identity, power, rationality, subjectivity, law and safety, but above all: religion questions, contests and even blurs the borders between the public and the private. These phenomena urge to rethink what are often considered to be clear differences between religions, between the public and the private and between the religious and the secular. In this volume scholars from a range of different disciplines map the different aspects of the dynamics of changing, contesting and contested religious identities.