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Dealing with the nexus of religion and power, this volume undermines the idea that the political relevance of religion is a thing of the past. Its essays treat power as a central aspect of religion on many levels, from that of macro-politics through the links between religion and nationhood to the l...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Borg, M. B. ter (Editor ), Henten, Jan Willem van, 1955- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2010.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Future of the religious past.
Temas:
Religion and sociology.
Power (Social sciences)
Religion.
Philosophy & Religion.
Religion > General.
Sociologie religieuse.
Pouvoir (Sciences sociales)
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Gaia & Earth Energies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > History & Theory.
Religion - General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Meerten B. ter Borg and Jan Willem van Henten
  • Part I. Macropolitics
  • The recovery of perverted religion : internal power processes and the vicissitudes of religious experience / André Droogers
  • Symbolic violence : religion and empowerment / Mark Juegensmeyer
  • Political theology : the authority of God / Avishai Margalit
  • Explaining the global religious revivial [sic] : the Egyptian case / Talal Asad
  • Part II. The nation
  • Seeing nationhood : images of American identity / David Morgan
  • The visible and the invisible in South Asia / Peter van der Veer
  • The power of Mary in secessionist warfare : Catholicism and political crisis in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea / Anna-Karina Hermkens
  • The Mourid Brotherhood at the center of Senegalese political life : a dialectic of state and religious power / Cheikh Guéye and Olivia Gervasoni
  • Sharia and state in the Sudan : from late colonialism to late Islamism / Shamil Jeppie
  • "Bolivarian" anti-semitism / Claudio Lomnitz and Rafael Sánchez
  • Part III. The individual : between powerlessness and empowerment
  • The power of the less powerful : making memory on a pilgrimage to Lourdes / Catrien Notermans
  • "Without my headscarf I feel naked" : "veiling," laïcité, politics, and Islamist discourse in North Cameroon / José C.M. van Santen
  • Religion and powerlessness : Elena in Nothing is missing / Mieke Bal
  • Part IV. Religion and power : artistic representations
  • Music, religion, and power : Qawwali as empowering disempowerment / Rokus de Groot
  • John Cage and the mystification of musical silence / Jael Kraut
  • Maternal martyrdom : Alien3 and the power of the female martyr / Laura Copier.

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