Religion and politics Books
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Frieden durch Recht – Rechtstraditionen und
Book SynopsisDas Völkerrecht gilt als eine der zentralen Friedensstrategien. Zugleich ist das Paradigma „Frieden durch Recht“ nicht unumstritten. Es speist sich aus verschiedenen Rechtstraditionen, die jeweils einen eigenen Interessenschwerpunkt vornehmen.Welche Aspekte hierbei zentral sind und welche Implikationen sich aus den jeweiligen juristischen Diskursen in der Rechtstradition für die Debatte um die rechtserhaltende Gewalt ergeben, steht im Zentrum des Bandes. Er nimmt verschiedene Rechtstraditionen vergleichend in den Blick. Dabei wird der Fokus insbesondere auf die ständigen Mitglieder des UN-Sicherheitsrates und Deutschland gelegt. Table of ContentsRechtstraditionen und Verortungen.- Modelle evangelischer Rechtsethik im Horizont globaler Ordnungssuche.- Die deutsche Sprache des Rechts.- Frieden durch Recht im Lichte unterschiedlicher Rechtstraditionen.- „Frieden durch Recht“ aus französischer Perspektive.- Das Paradigma Frieden durch Recht im Völkerrechtsverständnis Russlands.- Frieden, Recht und Good Governance im alten und neuen China.- Rechtstraditionen, Legitimierung von Gewalteinsatz und gerechter Frieden
£17.09
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Rethinking the Religious Factor in Foreign Policy
Book SynopsisThe authors of this book analyze the mechanisms and strategies that allow specific religious actors to affect the foreign policy agenda and decisions of the countries in which they are active. Paying special attention to events and phenomena that have had a decisive impact on regional and global development, this book provides an international outlook on how the activities of religious actors can influence foreign policy. The research subject was inspired by the idea of identifying what dynamics are occurring and whether there are any discernible trends. Table of ContentsStrategies of Implementing Religious Influence on Foreign Policy.- The Role of Religion in Foreign Policy in the European Context – Examples and Reports.- Religious Impact on Foreign Policy in Non-European Countries – Examples and Reports.
£67.49
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Gerechter Frieden: Im Spannungsfeld zwischen
Book SynopsisDieses Open-Access-Buch führt in das noch relativ junge Konzept des gerechten Friedens ein. Es verhandelt seine drei Grundpfeiler: das Verständnis einer Friedensordnung als Rechtsordnung, die Beschränkung militärischer Gewalt zur Rechtsdurchsetzung sowie den Vorrang ziviler Konfliktbearbeitung. Dabei nimmt die Autorin konzeptinhärente Ambivalenzen und bestehende Dissense in den Blick und zeigt Perspektiven eines Umgangs mit friedensethischen Ambiguitäten auf. Abschließend reflektiert sie den Anspruch der Kirchen, mit dem gerechten Frieden als christliches Leitbild ein Orientierungswissen für Politik und Gesellschaft bieten zu können.Table of ContentsDer gerechte Frieden zur Verortung eines Konzeptes.- Frieden durch Recht – Recht durch Krieg?.- Rechtserhaltende Gewalt oder rechtserhaltender Zwang – mehr als eine semantische Unterscheidung.- Zivile Konfliktbearbeitung – eine vorrangige Aufgabe, aber nicht ohne Beschränkungen und Aporien.- Gerechter Frieden als Orientierungswissen – ein christliches Leitbild für eine plurale Gesellschaft? Ein Ausblick.
£9.99
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Laizität und Sozialdemokratie: Eine vergleichende
Book SynopsisDie Öffnung sozialdemokratischer und sozialistischer Parteien gegenüber Religions- und Weltanschauungsgemeinschaften hat zu uneinheitlichen Situationen in den ursprünglich religionskritischen, laizistischen Parteien geführt. Bei allen gemeinsam geteilten Werten der europäischen Schwesterparteien existieren divergierende laizistische Grundhaltungen und Auslegungsarten des Konzeptes der Laizität. Diese bilden den Gegenstand der vorliegenden Arbeit: Die laizistischen Grundhaltungen verschiedener sozialdemokratischer Parteien in Europa werden herausgestellt, verglichen und analysiert. Dies geschieht durch eine Inhaltsanalyse von Parteipublikationen, die ergänzt wird durch Experteninterviews mit prominenten Vertretern der Parteien – so u.a. mit dem früheren spanischen Ministerpräsidenten José Luis Zapatero, mit dem ehemaligen Bundestagspräsidenten Wolfgang Thierse oder mit dem früheren Nationalen Sekretär für Laizität in Frankreich Jean Glavany. Anschließend werden auf Grundlage einer vergleichend ausgerichteten Analyse laizistischer Deutungsmuster der Parteien perspektivisch mehrere Erklärungsansätze und Einflussfaktoren auf die unterschiedlichen laizistischen Ausprägungen formuliert.Table of ContentsEinleitung.- Historische und gegenwärtige politische Konzeptualisierungen von Laizität.- Forschungsdesign: Fallauswahl und methodisches Vorgehen.- Fallstudie Frankreich: Laizistische Grundhaltungen der Parti Socialiste in Religions- und Weltanschauungspolitik.- Fallstudie Spanien: Laizistische Grundhaltungen der Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE) in Religions- und Weltanschauungspolitik.- Fallstudie Deutschland: Laizistische Grundhaltungen der Sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschlands (SPD) in Religions- und Weltanschauungspolitik.- Vergleichende Analyse und Ergebnisdarstellung, Laizitätspolitik – ein neues Politikfeld?.- Fazit und Ausblick.
£52.24
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Pluralität und Pluralismus in der evangelischen
Book SynopsisDieses Buch thematisiert Pluralität und Pluralismus in der evangelischen Friedensethik. Denn die Kirche kann nur und muss letztendlich im Rahmen des politischen und weltanschaulich-religiösen Pluralismus agieren. Ob sie dabei selbst als eine einheitliche Stimme auftreten soll, ist Gegenstand der Diskussion. Sie selbst ist schließlich intern immer schon plural verfasst, gesellschaftlich aber eben auch die Kirche. Das verschärft die Frage nach der Stimme der Kirche: Geht ihren Äußerungen ein interner Klärungsprozess voraus, der den inneren Pluralismus zu eben jener einen Stimme zusammenführt oder nimmt die Kirche in Form mehrerer einzelner Stimmen am pluralistischen Konzert teil? Diese Fragen beantwortet der Sammelband aus verschiedenen, nicht nur kirchlichen, Perspektiven.Table of ContentsEinführung: Pluralität und Pluralismus in der evangelischen Friedensethik.- Zum Wandel der Legitimationsformen für die Rolle der Kirche in der Öffentlichkeit.- Öffentliche Theologie, Pluralität und Pluralismus in der Friedensfrage.- Ethischer Pluralismus am Ort der Kirche.- Pluralismus in der Friedensethik – Legitimität und Grenzen.- Kirche der Innerkirchlicher Pluralismus in der Spannung zwischen individuellem Gewissensentscheid und Allgemeinverbindlichkeit.- Adressaten kirchlicher Kundgebungen: Eine praxistheoretische Rekonstruktion.- Die Adressaten sozialethischer Stellungnahmen: Eine katholische Perspektive.- Resümee: Ethischer Pluralismus und die Friedensfrage.
£18.99
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Political Conservatism and Religious Reformation
Book SynopsisThis book is a theoretical inquiry on the relation of the body politic with the religious movements in the time between the Constitutional Revolution and the Islamic Revolution in Iran; it illustrates speculative and historical analyses on the relationship of state, religion, and socio-political status in the late Qajar dynasty (1905-1925) and the whole Pahlavi monarchy. Particularly, it examines the applicability of “liberal conservatism” to the era of the last Shah of Iran. The thesis defines the term political conservatism in accord with Edmund Burke’s philosophy. It deals next with the definition of religious reformation, the peculiar characteristics of Islam, the Shi'ite political theology, and the contradictory usages of “Islamic reformation” in the literature. The text gives an overview of the two antagonist sides of nationalism. It provides also an analysis of the Islamic Republic as a new political phenomenon in Iranian history and the transformation of all concepts after 1979. Ayatollahi aims to assess the Iranian conservatism, the possibility of conciliation between politics and religion before the collapse of the Pahlavi, and “the conditions of possibility” for any restoration of the monarchy.Table of ContentsWhat Is Political Conservatism?.- What Is Religious Reformation?.- Constitutionalism, Religion & Modernization.- From The Constitutional Revolution To The Shi'ite Ideology.- Conclusion.- Bibliography.
£75.99
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Sozialkapital und Religion: Eine Sekundäranalyse
Book SynopsisSozialkapital als interdisziplinäres Konzept bietet einen nützlichen konzeptionellen Rahmen, die gesellschaftliche Rolle von Religion in einer übergeordneten theoretischen Perspektive zu thematisieren und zu untersuchen. Anknüpfend an den bisherigen Forschungsstand wird in diesem Buch ein Modell hergeleitet, welches ein theoretisches Fundament für die komplexe Beziehung zwischen Sozialkapital und Religion bildet. Dieses Modell zum religiösen Sozialkapital wird anschliessend anhand einer Sekundäranalyse für die Schweiz angewandt, wodurch wichtige aktuelle Erkenntnisse für Religion, Wirtschaft und Politik gewonnen werdenTable of ContentsEinleitung.- Theoretischer Hintergrund des Sozialkapitalkonzepts .- Verknüpfung von Religion und Sozialkapital.- Daten und Methode.- Religion in der Schweiz.- Das soziale Kapital der Schweiz.-Fazit: Religion und Sozialkapital.- Ausblick und Implikationen.
£47.49
Brill Fink Religiöse Referenzen Ästhetischer Form: Zum
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£79.00
Matthias Grunewald Verlag Religion ALS Ressource Befreiender Entwicklung:
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£50.35
Matthias Grunewald Verlag Vielfaltige Heimat(en): Kommunikativ-Theologische
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£37.05
Matthias Grunewald Verlag Gegen Falsche Alternativen: Warum Dem
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£32.30
Matthias Grunewald Verlag Nicht Gleichgultig Bleiben!: Die Soziale
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£19.00
Neukirchener Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Geflà chtete in Deutschland: Ansichten -
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£33.23
Schwabe Verlagsgruppe Transformationen ROMs in Der Vormoderne
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£61.75
Schwabe Verlagsgruppe Zeit - In Gedanken Erfasst: Philosophische
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£34.20
Schwabe Verlagsgruppe Erasmus of Rotterdam: A Portrait
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£43.70
Jan Thorbecke Verlag Das Konstanzer Konzil: Kirchenpolitik
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£31.35
EOS - Editions Sankt Ottilien Religious Freedom, the Bed-Rock of National Unity
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£30.00
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft State and Church in the European Union: Second
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£42.00
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Religion, Expression, and Patriotism in Russia –
Book SynopsisThe 2010s saw an introduction of legislative acts about religion, sexuality, and culture in Russia, which caused an uproar of protests. They politicised areas of life commonly perceived as private and expected to be free of the state's control. As a result, political activism and radical grassroots movements engaged many Russians in controversies about religion and culture and polarised popular opinion in the capitals and regions alike. This volume presents seven case studies which probe into the politics of religion and culture in today's Russia. The contributions highlight the diversity of Russia's religious communities and cultural practices by analysing Hasidic Jewish identities, popular culture sponsored by the Orthodox Church, literary mobilisation of the National Bolshevik Party, cinematic narratives of the Chechen wars, militarisation of political Orthodoxy, and moral debates caused by opera as well as film productions. The authors draw on a variety of theoretical approaches and methodologies, including opinion surveys, ethnological fieldwork, narrative analysis, Foucault's conceptualisation of biopower, catachrestic politics, and sociological theories of desecularisation. The volumes contributors are Sanna Turoma, Kaarina Aitamurto, Tomi Huttunen, Susan Ikonen, Boris Knorre, Irina Kotkina, Jussi Lassila, Andrey Makarychev, Elena Ostrovskaya, and Mikhail Suslov.
£27.00
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Defending the Faith – The Russian Orthodox Church
Book SynopsisFreedom of religious expression and assembly has never been under greater threat in post-Soviet Russia. The infamous Yarovaya Law of 2016 has made good on previous legislative endeavours to curtail the activities of undesirable religious entities. Behind the curtain, the influence of the Russian Orthodox Church looms large over state policy and the decline in religious liberties and pluralism. Lincoln E. Flake explains the churchs hostility to non-traditional groups as a consequence of historical-structural factors arising from its Soviet experience and immediate-strategic factors arising from its experience in the post-Soviet religious free market. It was not until the 2014 annexation of Crimea that church-state interests coincided to produce unprecedented collusion. The Church, which had previously only served symbolic purposes for domestic political advantage, was now required for more meaningful active measures in Russias all-of-government approach to advancing its national security strategy. Reciprocation produced the Yarovaya Law and further quid pro quos account for the relapse into religious intolerance. This study contextualizes the churchs present-day posture on religious pluralism by appealing both to historical experience and insights that Rational Choice Theory offers to the study of religious actors and religious behaviour.Trade Review"Defending the Faith challenges the assumption that the present antipathy of the Russian Orthodox Church toward religious pluralism and the Churchs close ties with the Putin government were inevitable. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Church found itself divided over how to handle the wave of well-financed and organized missionaries from the West. This perceived threat led to ever increasing ties with the state culminating in the 2016 Yarovaya laws. The book analyzes this development by contrasting the responses of the Russian Orthodox Church to post-Soviet religious pluralism with other regional churches. Most compellingly, the book analyzes scores of interviews with religious clerics from these churches to gauge the clerics conflicting evaluations of the Soviet past and the debate over the seriousness of the threat of religious pluralism. This book is a must-read for those interested in understanding the actions of the Russian Orthodox Church after 1991. -- Rodney Bohac, Emeritus Professor of History, Brigham Young University, UtahTable of ContentsForeword by Peter Martland; Acknowledgments; The Path of Protectionism: Church, State, and an Oppressive Institutional Design for Religion; Legacies of Sovietism: Structural-Historical Constraints; Post-Soviet Market Features: The Immediate-Strategic Context; The Georgian Orthodox Church: A Case Study in Authoritarianism; The Lithuanian Catholic Church: A Case Study in Indifference; The Russian Orthodox Church: Finding Its Voice at the Expense of Others; Regional Findings and Methodological Implications; Collusion That Matters: Church-State Symbiosis After Crimea; Bibliography; Appendix: Interview/Questionnaire Questions.
£27.00
V&R unipress GmbH Bonner Rechtswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen. Neue
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£100.40
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Policies and Politics of Teaching Religion
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£34.50
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Religion and Democracy: Studies in Public
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£30.00
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Antisemitismus Seit 9/11: Ereignisse, Debatten,
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£77.25
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Religion and Neo-Nationalism in Europe
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£77.25
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Proactive Tolerance: The Key to Peace
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£48.00
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Does Religion Make a Difference?: Religious Ngos
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£51.00
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Religion, Medien Und Die Corona-Pandemie:
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£19.50
Gerlach Press The Silent Revolution
Book SynopsisHow immune is the Gulf region to the changes that have engulfed the Arab world since 2011? This volume responds to this question by examining the impact of the Arab Spring on Gulf regimes and societies and contributing to debates on political participation and citizenship; sectarianism, gender and identity formation.
£104.48
Ergon Verlag Islamismus Von Aussen: Religionswissenschaftliche
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£55.50
Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Syartas Reise: Menschen Im Kirchenasyl
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£26.08
Silkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP Mediums, Monks, and Amulets: Thai Popular
Book SynopsisMediums, Monks, and Amulets is a sophisticated yet accessible study of the state of popular Buddhist beliefs as they are practiced in Thailand today. Using a combination of focused case studies and analysis, Pattana Kitiarsa explores the nature and evolution of popular Buddhism over the past three decades by focusing on those individuals who practice, popularize, and profit from it. The case studies profiled include prominent spirit mediums and magic monks, the lottery fever surrounding the posthumous cult of folk singer Phumphuang Duangchan, the Chatukham-Rammathep amulet craze, and the cult of wealth attributed to preeminent monk Luang Pho Khun. It also explores the history of both popular and official opinion surrounding supernatural Buddhism, and its clashes with the rationalist, modernizing policies of Thailand's monarchy and government. Mediums, Monks, and Amulets contests the viewpoint that supernatural elements within popular Buddhism are a symptom of the decline of the religion. Instead, it argues that this hybridity between traditional Buddhist beliefs and elements from other religions is in fact indicative of the health and wealth of Buddhism as it negotiates large-scale commercialization and global modernity.
£26.99
Editora Mundo Cristao Uma leitura negra: Interpretação bíblica como
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£23.64
Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. India's Muslim Spring: Why is Nobody Talking
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£12.74
Editorial Kairos Política Con Conciencia: La Alternativa Buddhista
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£18.59
£29.34
NIAS Press Fishers, Monks and Cadres: Navigating State,
Book SynopsisThis remarkable and timely ethnography explores how fishing communities living on the fringe of the South China Sea in central Vietnam interact with state and religious authorities as well as their farmer neighbors - even while handling new geopolitical challenges. The focus is mainly on marginal people and their navigation between competing forces over the decades of massive change since their incorporation into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1975. The sea, however, plays a major role in this study as does the location: a once-peripheral area now at the center of a global struggle for sovereignty, influence and control in the South China Sea. The coastal fishing communities at the heart of this study are peripheral not so much because of geographical remoteness as their presumed social 'backwardness'; they only partially fit into the social imaginary of Vietnam's territory and nation. The state thus tries to incorporate them through various cultural agendas while religious reformers seek to purify their religious practices. Yet, recently, these communities have also come to be seen as guardians of an ancient fishing culture, important in Vietnam's resistance to Chinese claims over the South China Sea. The fishers have responded to their situation with a blend of conformity, co-option and subtle indiscipline. A complex, triadic relationship is at play here. Within it are various shifting binaries - e.g. secular/religious, fishers/farmers, local ritual/Buddhist doctrine, etc. - and different protagonists (state officials, religious figures, fishermen and -women) who construct, enact, and deconstruct these relations in shifting alliances and changing contexts. Fishers, Monks and Cadres is a significant new work. Its vivid portrait of local beliefs and practices makes a powerful argument for looking beyond monolithic religious traditions. Its triadic analysis and subtle use of binaries offer startlingly fresh ways to view Vietnamese society and local political power. The book demonstrates Vietnam is more than urban and agrarian society in the Red River Basin and Mekong Delta. Finally, the author builds on intensive, long-term research to portray a region at the forefront of geopolitical struggle, offering insights that will be fascinating and revealing to a much broader readership.
£64.00
NIAS Press Belittled Citizens: The Cultural Politics of
Book SynopsisWhat does childhood mean in contemporary Thailand? What constitutes childhood in a slum? How does childhood figure in the construction of national citizenships? Rich in ethnographic detail, this fascinating, engaging and illuminating study explores the daily lives, constraints, and social worlds of children born in the slums of Bangkok, and their ways of defining themselves in relation to a range of governing technologies, state and non-state actors, and broad cultural politics. It does so by interrogating the layered meanings of “childhood” in slums, schools, Buddhist temples, Christian NGOs, state and international aid organisations, as well as social media. Giuseppe Bolotta’s analysis employs “childhood” as a prism to make sense of broader socio-political, religious, and economic transformations in Thai society. By examining the competition between different Thai and foreign actors to define and control the world-view formed by these children, he demonstrates how Bangkok slums are political arenas within which local, national and global social forces and interests converge and clash. At the same time, this analysis highlights the roles played by Bangkok’s poor children in processes of social change, considering how young people’s efforts to make sense of themselves in an era of authoritarian rule reflect the broader tensions facing the urban poor in this complex moment of Thai history. The book shows how “marginal childhoods” and the “cultural technologies of childhood” – schools, religious agencies, NGOs – reflect both endemic inequalities in Thailand’s larger socio-political structure and global transformations in transnational childhood governance. Marginalized young people’s increasingly plural cultural references create space for both existential fragmentation and creative self-reformulation, which provide socially disadvantaged citizens with unexpected religious, economic, and political resources to challenge Thai society’s generational structures of power. Through these arguments, Belittled Citizens demonstrates that “childhood” is best understood in Thailand as a political category that has been fundamental to the military state’s rule and, potentially, its undoing. It also shows more broadly how attention to children, typically excluded from national politics and therefore invisible in most political analyses, has important potential for producing startling insights into contemporary Southeast Asian societiesTrade ReviewThis splendidly original and meticulously documented exploration of the constricted life chances of Bangkok’s slum children illuminates the problems of youth and class in a world shaped by karmic concepts of destiny and hierarchy. Gracefully written and resonant with compassionate insight, it deserves a wide readership. – Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University, author of Siege of the Spirits
£62.05
NIAS Press Belittled Citizens: The Cultural Politics of
Book SynopsisWhat does childhood mean in contemporary Thailand? What constitutes childhood in a slum? How does childhood figure in the construction of national citizenships? Rich in ethnographic detail, this fascinating, engaging and illuminating study explores the daily lives, constraints, and social worlds of children born in the slums of Bangkok, and their ways of defining themselves in relation to a range of governing technologies, state and non-state actors, and broad cultural politics. It does so by interrogating the layered meanings of “childhood” in slums, schools, Buddhist temples, Christian NGOs, state and international aid organisations, as well as social media. Giuseppe Bolotta’s analysis employs “childhood” as a prism to make sense of broader socio-political, religious, and economic transformations in Thai society. By examining the competition between different Thai and foreign actors to define and control the world-view formed by these children, he demonstrates how Bangkok slums are political arenas within which local, national and global social forces and interests converge and clash. At the same time, this analysis highlights the roles played by Bangkok’s poor children in processes of social change, considering how young people’s efforts to make sense of themselves in an era of authoritarian rule reflect the broader tensions facing the urban poor in this complex moment of Thai history. The book shows how “marginal childhoods” and the “cultural technologies of childhood” – schools, religious agencies, NGOs – reflect both endemic inequalities in Thailand’s larger socio-political structure and global transformations in transnational childhood governance. Marginalized young people’s increasingly plural cultural references create space for both existential fragmentation and creative self-reformulation, which provide socially disadvantaged citizens with unexpected religious, economic, and political resources to challenge Thai society’s generational structures of power. Through these arguments, Belittled Citizens demonstrates that “childhood” is best understood in Thailand as a political category that has been fundamental to the military state’s rule and, potentially, its undoing. It also shows more broadly how attention to children, typically excluded from national politics and therefore invisible in most political analyses, has important potential for producing startling insights into contemporary Southeast Asian societies.Trade ReviewThis splendidly original and meticulously documented exploration of the constricted life chances of Bangkok’s slum children illuminates the problems of youth and class in a world shaped by karmic concepts of destiny and hierarchy. Gracefully written and resonant with compassionate insight, it deserves a wide readership. – Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University, author of Siege of the Spirits
£29.04
NIAS Press Salafism and the State: Islamic Activism and
Book SynopsisRecent studies of Indonesian Islam have pointed to the growing prominence of ‘conservative’ and globally expansive Islamic doctrines. Salafism is one such doctrine, and it has gained increasing popularity in Indonesia over the past several decades. Aiming to propagate a ‘literalist’ interpretation of Islam, Salafi activists argue that many local Islamic traditions, histories and cultures are unIslamic. This has led to significant controversy, and accusations by many Indonesians that Salafism is foreign to country, an intolerant religion, and should have no part in the religious life of the nation. This book offers an ethnographic study of this often misunderstood and controversial movement. It explains why Salafism is growing in numbers, especially amongst young people, and how Salafi activists promote their faith within the wider public. It explores the range of propagational activities and products Salafis use in their public outreach, including literature, mosque sermons, social media ventures, and even fashion, and describes how these activities are tailored to a young Indonesian audience. Salafis may have global roots, but as this book outlines, its success in Indonesia is best understood as an intrinsically local phenomenon entangled within Indonesian ideas of Islamic praxis, consumerism, modernity, political action and citizenship. Salafi activists do not see themselves as foreign religious agents or detached from Indonesian life, but increasingly as part of a religiously conservative moral vanguard. Salafism is, consequently, part of the broader re-orientation of social, cultural and political life we are seeing in contemporary Indonesia.Trade Review‘Chris Chaplin’s carefully argued and sophisticated analysis of Salafism in Indonesia not only shows its appeal as a mix of social movement and individualizing force; it leverages rich ethnographic detail to reveal Salafism’s internal tensions and paradoxes as a defining trait, a necessary condition for the movement’s growth as it continues to inspire an increasingly conservative and politicized religious landscape. Relevant well beyond the Indonesian context, this book is an important contribution to the study of Islam. It will be widely read.’ (Dr David Kloos, KITLV - Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies)
£73.00
NIAS Press Salafism and the State: Islamic Activism and
Book SynopsisRecent studies of Indonesian Islam have pointed to the growing prominence of ‘conservative’ and globally expansive Islamic doctrines. Salafism is one such doctrine, and it has gained increasing popularity in Indonesia over the past several decades. Aiming to propagate a ‘literalist’ interpretation of Islam, Salafi activists argue that many local Islamic traditions, histories and cultures are unIslamic. This has led to significant controversy, and accusations by many Indonesians that Salafism is foreign to country, an intolerant religion, and should have no part in the religious life of the nation. This book offers an ethnographic study of this often misunderstood and controversial movement. It explains why Salafism is growing in numbers, especially amongst young people, and how Salafi activists promote their faith within the wider public. It explores the range of propagational activities and products Salafis use in their public outreach, including literature, mosque sermons, social media ventures, and even fashion, and describes how these activities are tailored to a young Indonesian audience. Salafis may have global roots, but as this book outlines, its success in Indonesia is best understood as an intrinsically local phenomenon entangled within Indonesian ideas of Islamic praxis, consumerism, modernity, political action and citizenship. Salafi activists do not see themselves as foreign religious agents or detached from Indonesian life, but increasingly as part of a religiously conservative moral vanguard. Salafism is, consequently, part of the broader re-orientation of social, cultural and political life we are seeing in contemporary Indonesia.Trade Review‘Chris Chaplin’s carefully argued and sophisticated analysis of Salafism in Indonesia not only shows its appeal as a mix of social movement and individualizing force; it leverages rich ethnographic detail to reveal Salafism’s internal tensions and paradoxes as a defining trait, a necessary condition for the movement’s growth as it continues to inspire an increasingly conservative and politicized religious landscape. Relevant well beyond the Indonesian context, this book is an important contribution to the study of Islam. It will be widely read.’ (Dr David Kloos, KITLV - Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies)
£20.66
Peeters Stati E Confessioni Religiose in Europa - Church
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£22.00
Viella Senato Sapiente: L'Alba Della Cultura Laica a
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£94.35
Viella I Diritti Umani: E La Trasformazione Delle
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£63.66
Edizioni Terra Santa Per Una Cultura Di Pace in Terra Santa
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£32.00
Edizioni Terra Santa Ponti Non Muri: Cantieri Di Incontro Tra
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£15.77
Viella Papacy Religious Orders and International Politics in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
£32.10
