Contemporary religiosities : emergent socialities and the post-nation state

Contemporary religiosities : emergent socialities and the post-nation state / edited by Bruce Kapferer, Kari Telle, and Annelin Eriksen.

The last decade has seen an unexpected return of the religious, and with it the creation of new kinds of social forms alongside new fusions of political and religious realms that high modernity kept distinct. For a fuller understanding of what this means for society in the context of globalization,...

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Other Authors: Kapferer, Bruce (Editor), Telle, Kari (Editor), Eriksen, Annelin (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2010.
Subjects:
Religions.
Religion and sociology.
Religion and politics.
religions (belief systems, cultures)
sociology of religion.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
RELIGION > Essays.
RELIGION > Reference.
RELIGION > General.
Religion and politics
Religion and sociology
Religions
Religiosität
Säkularisierung
Globalisierung
Sozioökonomischer Wandel
Nationalstaat
Godsdiensten.
Secularisatie (maatschappij)
Politieke aspecten.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : religiosities toward the future ... in pursuit of the new millennium / Bruce Kapferer, Kari Telle, and Annelin Eriksen
  • The politics of conviction : faith on the neo-liberal frontier / Jean Comaroff
  • Strategic secularism : Bible advocacy in England / Matthew Engelke
  • Pentecostal networks and the spirit of globalization : on the special productivity of ritual forms / Joel Robbins
  • Healing the nation : in search of unity through the Holy Spirit in Vanuatu / Annelin Eriksen
  • What happened to cargo cults? Material religions in Melanesia and the west / Ton Otto
  • Gold for a golden age : sacred money and Islam freedom in a global Sufi order / Nils Bubandt
  • Sri Lankan civil society and its fanatics / Rohan Bastin
  • Dharma power : searching for security in post-new order Indonesia / Kari Telle
  • An ancient case of interrogation and torture / Bruce Lincoln
  • The terrorist as humanitarian / Faisal Devji
  • Reflections on the rise of legal theology : law and religion in the twenty-first century / John L. Comaroff.

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