{"product_id":"religion-politics-and-globalization-anthropological-approaches-9780857459046","title":"Religion Politics and Globalization","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eThis edited volume is an excellent attempt to connect not just the concepts of religion and politics—a task  usually undertaken in a number of other publications—but also the forces of globalisation. The latter construct is of great significance to any current discussion of how religion and politics interact…this volume is to be commended for aptly translating the interactions of religion and politics in a globalised world, as diverse as they may be, in very clear terms.\u003c\/em\u003e”  \u003cb\u003e·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJournal of Contemporary Religion\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"This volume is an important contribution to current rethinking of the sociological categories of religion and the secular. As a whole the collection demonstrates the development of new perspectives and presents a number of highly relevant case studies…It is significant as part of a growing discourse aimed at re-addressing old issues in a fresh and highly insightful manner.\"\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003e·  Bruce Kapferer, University of Bergen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Figures\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePreface\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eDon Handelman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e After Understanding: A Memoir of Galina Lindquist\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMichael Jackson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e Religion, Politics, and Globalization: The Long Past Foregrounding the Short Present - Prologue and Introduction\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eDon Handelman\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGalina Lindquist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eSECTION I: SHAPING RELIGION THROUGH POLITICS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e Ethnic Identity and Religious Competition: Buddhism and Shamanism in Southern Siberia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eGalina Lindquist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e The Global Constitution of Religious Competition: Hindutva and Globalization\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eHenrik Berglund\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eSECTION II: OPEN CONFLICTS OF RELIGION AND POLITICS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e Church Confronts State: The 2004 Manifestasaun in Timor-Leste\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eDavid Hicks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e Religion, Secularism, Secularism, and Politics in Contemporary Spain: The Case of the Imam of Fuengirola\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eEva Evers Rosander\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eSECTION III: THE TIGHT EMBRACE OF RELIGION AND POLITICS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e Actors of History? Religion, Politics and ‘Reality’ Within the Protestant Right in America\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eSimon Coleman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e The Ambiguities of Islamism and a Century of Iranian Opposition\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eDavid Thurfjell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eSECTION IV: OPENING NEW SPACE FOR RELIGION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/b\u003e Amazighite, Arab\/Islamic Hegemony, and the Christian Evangelical Challenge\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMira Amiras\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/b\u003e Self-Exploders, Self-Sacrifice, and the Rhizomic Organization of Terrorism\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eDon Handelman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/b\u003e Afterword: Fixation of Belief and the Dilemmas of Fallibility\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eRobert Innis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tNotes on Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038918443351,"sku":"9780857459046","price":26.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780857459046.jpg?v=1750941934","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/religion-politics-and-globalization-anthropological-approaches-9780857459046","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}