Religion, politics,and globalization [[electronic resource] ] : anthropological approaches / / edited by Galina Lindquist and Don Handelman

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Berghahn Books, c2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (316 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.6
• Soggetto topico: Anthropology of religion; Religion and culture; Politics and culture; Culture and globalization
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: LindquistGalina HandelmanDon
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Religion, politics,and globalization
• ISBN: 1-84545-546-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910494640003321
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