Contemporary Religiosities

Emergent Socialities and the Post-Nation-State
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-85745-130-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 337 g

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, it is necessary to rethink the relationship between the religious and the secular; the contributors - all leading scholars in anthropology - do just that, some even arguing that secularization itself now takes a religious form. Combining theoretical reflection with vivid ethnographic explorations, this essential collection is designed to advance a critical understanding of social and personal religious experience in today's world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kapferer, Bruce

Telle, Kari

Eriksen, Annelin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Religiosities toward a Future—in Pursuit of the New Millennium

Bruce Kapferer, Annelin Eriksen, and Kari Telle

Chapter 1. The Politics of Conviction: Faith on the Neo-liberal Frontier

Jean Comaroff

Chapter 2. Strategic Secularism: Bible Advocacy in England

Matthew Engelke

Chapter 3. Pentecostal Networks and the Spirit of Globalization: On the Social Productivity of Ritual Forms

Joel Robbins

Chapter 4.  Healing the Nation: In Search of Unity through the Holy Spirit in Vanuatu

Annelin Eriksen

Chapter 5. What Happened to Cargo Cults? Material Religions in Melanesia and the West

Ton Otto

Chapter 6. Gold for a Golden Age: Sacred Money and Islamic Freedom in a Global Sufi Order

Nils Bubandt

Chapter 7. Sri Lankan Civil Society and Its Fanatics

Rohan Bastin

Chapter 8. Dharma Power: Searching for Security in Post–New Order Indonesia

Kari Telle

Chapter 9. An Ancient Case of Interrogation and Torture

Bruce Lincoln

Chapter 10. The Terrorist as Humanitarian

Faisal Devji

Chapter 11. Reflections on the Rise of Legal Theology: Law and Religion in the Twenty-First Century

John L. Comaroff

Über Autor(innen)

Telle, Kari
Kari Telle is a Senior Researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) in Bergen, Norway, where she also coordinates the “Politics of Faith” research program. Her work in Indonesia deals with popular religion, ritual, conflict and security politics. Recent publications include: Swearing Innocence: Performing Justice and “Reconciliation” in Post-New Order Lombok(2009); Spirited Places and Ritual Dynamics among Sasak Muslims on Lombok (2009); Entangled Biographies: Rebuilding a Sasak House (2007).

Kapferer, Bruce
Bruce Kapferer is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences and is currently Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, Norway. His published books include: A Celebration of Demons (1983), Legends of People, Myths of the State (1988), and The Feast of the Sorcerer (1997). He has edited Beyond Rationalism (2003), and has coedited with Angela Hobart Aesthetics in Performance (2005) and, with Bjørn Bertelsen, Crisis of the State (2009).

Eriksen, Annelin
Annelin Eriksen is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. She has worked since 1995 in Vanuatu, first on Ambrym island and later in the capital Port Vila. Her work deals with social and cultural change, Christianity, and gender relations. Her most recent book is Gender, Christianity and Change (2008).

Bruce Kapferer is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences and is currently Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, Norway. His published books include: A Celebration of Demons (1983), Legends of People, Myths of the State (1988), and The Feast of the Sorcerer (1997). He has edited Beyond Rationalism (2003), and has coedited with Angela Hobart Aesthetics in Performance (2005) and, with Bjørn Bertelsen, Crisis of the State (2009).