Contesting religious identities : : transformations, disseminations, and mediations / / 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 identi...

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Superior document:Numen book series : studies in the history of religions, Volume 156
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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.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Contesting Religious Identities: An Introduction / Anne-Marie Korte and Lucien van Liere
  • Interpreting ‘Movement’ within Religious Studies: An Introduction to ‘Territories and Diasporas’ / Lucien van Liere
  • Home of the Mother, Exile of the Father: Gender and Space in the Construction of Biblical Identity / Claudia V. Camp
  • Western Christianity as Part of Postcolonial World Christianity: The ‘Body of Christ with AIDS’ as an Interstitial Space / Adriaan van Klinken
  • Religion, Media, and the Global / Patrick Eisenlohr
  • Beyond Blind Faith: Religious Identities under the Conditions of Late Capitalism / Joerg Rieger
  • Broken Texts and Distorted Images: An Introduction to ‘Media and Texts’ / Bob Becking
  • Psychoapocalypse: Desiring the Ends of the World / Tina Pippin
  • Dangerous Enthusiasm: An Aspect of the Clash between Cartesianism and Orthodoxy at Utrecht University / Henk van den Belt
  • Islam Controversies and Humour: Responses to Comedic Vlogs on the YouTube Battlefield / Fadi Hirzalla , Liesbet van Zoonen and Floris Müller
  • Fulla, the Cover-up Girl. Identity Politics via a Doll? / Martha Frederiks
  • Resilience Beyond Mimesis, Humanism, Autonomy, and Exemplary Persons / Joachim Duyndam
  • Embodied Faith as Bone of Contention: Introduction to ‘Bodies and Rituals’ / Anne-Marie Korte
  • Contesting Islam: The Making and Unmaking of Religious Faith / Nilüfer Göle
  • Martyrdom as a Contested Practice in Rabbinic Judaism / Eric Ottenheijm
  • Conservative Evangelical Listening Practices and the Embodiment of Faith / Anna Strhan
  • A Material History of Catholic Precarity in Amsterdam / Markha Valenta
  • At the Threshold: A Panorama for Future Research and Challenges to Religious Studies / Lucien van Liere
  • Index.