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



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Titolo: Religion, politics,and globalization : anthropological approaches / / edited by Galina Lindquist and Don Handelman Visualizza cluster
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
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
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ISBN: 0-85745-925-2
1-84545-546-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910813314303321
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