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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813314303321

Titolo

Religion, politics,and globalization : anthropological approaches / / edited by Galina Lindquist and Don Handelman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, c2011

ISBN

0-85745-925-2

1-84545-546-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (316 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LindquistGalina

HandelmanDon

Disciplina

306.6

Soggetti

Anthropology of religion

Religion and culture

Politics and culture

Culture and globalization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

RELIGION, POLITICS, AND GLOBALIZATION; Contents; Figures; Preface; After Understanding: A Memoir of Galina Lindquist; Religion, Politics, and Globalization: The Long Past Foregroundig the Short Present-Prologue and Introduction; Part I - Shaping Religion Through Politics; Chapter 1 - Ethnic Identity and Religious Competition: Buddhism and Shamanism in Southern Siberia; Chapter 2 - The Global Constitution of Religious Nationalism: Hindutva and Globalization; Part II - Open Conflicts Between Religion and Politics; Chapter 3 - Church Confronts State: The 2005 Manifestasaun in Timor-Leste

Chapter 4 - Religion, Secularism, and Politics in Contemporary Spain: The Case of the Imam of FuengirolaPart III - The Tight Embrace of Religion and Politics; Chapter 5 - Actors of History? Religion, Politics, and ""Reality"" within the Protestant Right in America; Chapter 6 - The Ambiguities of Islamism and a Century of Iranian Opposition; Part IV - Opening New Space for Religion; Chapter 7 - Amazighité, Arab/Islamic Hegemony, and the Christian Evangelical Challenge; Chapter 8 - Self-Exploders, Self-Sacrifice, and the Rhizomic Organization of Terrorism

Afterword - Fixation of Belief and the Dilemmas of



FallibilityContributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 transcendent