Contesting Religious Identities
Transformations, Disseminations and Mediations
Published on 26. January 2017
Book
Hardback
316 pages
978-90-04-33604-9 (ISBN)
Description
Religion is a hot topic on the public stages of 'secular' societies, not in its individualized liberal or orthodox form, but rather as a public statement, challenging the divide between the secular neutral space and the religious. In this new challenging modus, religion raises questions about identity, power, rationality, subjectivity, law and safety, but above all: religion questions, contests and even blurs the borders between the public and the private. These phenomena urge to rethink what are often considered to be clear differences between religions, between the public and the private and between the religious and the secular. In this volume scholars from a range of different disciplines map the different aspects of the dynamics of changing, contesting and contested religious identities.
Reviews / Votes
"The contributors offer fresh perspectives on the place of religion in modern, secular societies. (...) Professionals, undergraduate and post-graduate students interested in discourses of religion in contemporary societies would benefit from the book."Sung H. Bauta, Asbury Theological Seminary, Mission Studies 34 (2017)
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
590 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-33604-9 (9789004336049)
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Persons
Bob Becking is emeritus senior research professor for Bible, Religion and Identity at the University of Utrecht. His research focuses on the impact of societal changes for the construction of religious identities in ancient Israel. He was co-editor of the Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible (Brill 1995; 1999). His most recent book is: Ezra, Nehemiah, and the Construction of Early Jewish Identity (Mohr Siebeck 2011). Anne-Marie Korte is professor of religion, gender and modernity at Utrecht University. Her publications include 'Sacred Symbols of the City: Babel, Barbara and their Towers'. In L. Gomez & W. van Herck (Eds.), The Sacred in the City(pp. 127-140). London/New York: Continuum, 2012 and has edited, together with A.K.H. Berlis and K. Biezeveld, Holiness and Homeliness: The Sacred and Everyday Life. Leiden: Brill, 2012. Lucien van Liere is associated professor of Religious Studies at Utrecht University. His research focus is on profiles of religion during violent conflicts. He has published extensively on religion-related violence, a.o. Teasing islam - Islam as the other side of tolerance in contemporary Dutch politics. Journal of Contemporary Religion, 29 (2014) 2, (pp. 187-202) and has co-edited Images of Enmity and Hope, The Transformative Power of Religion in Conflict (Lit, 2014). Contributors are: Bob Becking, Henk van den Belt, Claudia Camp, Joachim Duyndam, Patrick Eisenlohr, Anja Finger, Martha T. Frederiks, Nilufer Gole, Fadi Hirzalla, Adriaan van Klinken, Anne-Marie Korte, Lucien van Liere, Eric Ottenheijm, William Peterson, Tina Pippin, Joerg Rieger, Anna Strhan & Liesbeth van Zoonen.
Content
Contents
Contesting Religious Identities: An Introduction
Anne-Marie Korte & Lucien van Liere
Part 1: Territories and Diasporas
Interpreting 'Movement' within Religious Studies: An Introduction to 'Territories and Diasporas'
Lucien van Liere
Home of the Mother, Exile of the Father: Gender and Space in the Construction of Biblical Identity
Claudia V. Camp
Western Christianity as Part of Postcolonial World Christianity: The 'Body of Christ with AIDS' as an Interstitial Space
Adriaan van Klinken
Religion, Media, and the Global
Patrick Eisenlohr
Beyond Blind Faith: Religious Identities under the Conditions of Late Capitalism
Joerg Rieger
Part 2: Media and Texts
Broken Texts and Distorted Images: An Introduction to 'Media & Texts'
Bob Becking
Psychoapocalypse: Desiring the Ends of the World
Tina Pippin
Dangerous Enthusiasm: An Aspect of the Clash between Cartesianism and Orthodoxy at Utrecht University
Henk van den Belt
Islam Controversies and Humour: Responses to Comedic Vlogs on the YouTube Battlefield
Fadi Hirzalla, Liesbet van Zoonen & Floris Mueller
Fulla, the Cover-up Girl. Identity Politics via a Doll?
Martha Frederiks
Resilience Beyond Mimesis, Humanism, Autonomy, and Exemplary Persons
Joachim Duyndam
Part 3: Bodies and Rituals
Embodied Faith as Bone of Contention: Introduction to 'Bodies and Rituals'
Anne-Marie Korte
Contesting Islam: The Making and Unmaking of Religious Faith
Niluefer Goele
Martyrdom as a Contested Practice in Rabbinic Judaism
Eric Ottenheijm
Conservative Evangelical Listening Practices and the Embodiment of Faith
Anna Strhan
A Material History of Catholic Precarity in Amsterdam
Markha Valenta
Part 4: Epilogue
At the Threshold: A Panorama for Future Research and Challenges to Religious Studies
Lucien van Liere
Index
Contesting Religious Identities: An Introduction
Anne-Marie Korte & Lucien van Liere
Part 1: Territories and Diasporas
Interpreting 'Movement' within Religious Studies: An Introduction to 'Territories and Diasporas'
Lucien van Liere
Home of the Mother, Exile of the Father: Gender and Space in the Construction of Biblical Identity
Claudia V. Camp
Western Christianity as Part of Postcolonial World Christianity: The 'Body of Christ with AIDS' as an Interstitial Space
Adriaan van Klinken
Religion, Media, and the Global
Patrick Eisenlohr
Beyond Blind Faith: Religious Identities under the Conditions of Late Capitalism
Joerg Rieger
Part 2: Media and Texts
Broken Texts and Distorted Images: An Introduction to 'Media & Texts'
Bob Becking
Psychoapocalypse: Desiring the Ends of the World
Tina Pippin
Dangerous Enthusiasm: An Aspect of the Clash between Cartesianism and Orthodoxy at Utrecht University
Henk van den Belt
Islam Controversies and Humour: Responses to Comedic Vlogs on the YouTube Battlefield
Fadi Hirzalla, Liesbet van Zoonen & Floris Mueller
Fulla, the Cover-up Girl. Identity Politics via a Doll?
Martha Frederiks
Resilience Beyond Mimesis, Humanism, Autonomy, and Exemplary Persons
Joachim Duyndam
Part 3: Bodies and Rituals
Embodied Faith as Bone of Contention: Introduction to 'Bodies and Rituals'
Anne-Marie Korte
Contesting Islam: The Making and Unmaking of Religious Faith
Niluefer Goele
Martyrdom as a Contested Practice in Rabbinic Judaism
Eric Ottenheijm
Conservative Evangelical Listening Practices and the Embodiment of Faith
Anna Strhan
A Material History of Catholic Precarity in Amsterdam
Markha Valenta
Part 4: Epilogue
At the Threshold: A Panorama for Future Research and Challenges to Religious Studies
Lucien van Liere
Index