Contesting Religious Identities

Transformations, Disseminations and Mediations
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-33604-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 156, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: Numen Book Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Becking, Bob E J H

Korte, Anna-Marie J a C M

Liere, Lucien van

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Dialog & Beziehungen zwischen Religionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politik & Religion, Religionsfreiheit
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religiöse Fragen und Debatten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Müller

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
Nilüfer Göle

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

Über Autor(innen)

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. Gómez & 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, Nilüfer Göle, Fadi Hirzalla, Adriaan van Klinken, Anne-Marie Korte, Lucien van Liere, Eric Ottenheijm, William Peterson, Tina Pippin, Joerg Rieger, Anna Strhan & Liesbeth van Zoonen.