Religions in movement: the local and the global in contemporary faith traditions/

Other Authors: Hefner, Robert W.,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York; London: Routledge, [c2013]
Series:Routledge studies in religion 27
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Global perspectives on religion, nationalism and politics / John Hutchinson
  • Islam, politics and globalisation: what are the issues and outcomes? / Jeffrey Haynes
  • The paradox of globalisation: Quakers, religious NGOs and the United Nations / Jeremy Carrette
  • European secularity and religious modernity in Russia and Eastern Europe: focus on Orthodox Christianity / Inna Naletova
  • The Orthodox traidition in a globalising world: the case of the Romanian Orthodox Church / Suna Gulfer Ihlamur-Oner
  • Good Muslims, good Chinese: state modernisation policies, globalisation of religious networks and the changing Hui ethno-religious identifications / Maja Veselic
  • Where national histories and colonial myths meet: 'Histoire Croisee' and memory of the Moroccan-Berber cultural movement in the Netherlands / Norah Karrouche
  • Self-sacrifice and martyrdom in terrorism: political and religious motives / Francesco Marone
  • Varieties of religious globalisation / Robert W. Hefner
  • Religion in the contemporary globalised world: construction, migration, challenge, diversity / Peter Beyer
  • Voluntarism: niche markets created by a fissile transnational faith / David Martin
  • Women perform Ijtihad: hybridity as creative space for interpretations of Islam / Els Vanderwaren
  • Processes of localised and globalised Islam among young Muslims in Berlin / Synnove Bendixsen
  • Towards cultural translation: rethinking the dynamics of religious pluralism and globalisation through the Sathya Sai movement / Tulasi Srinivas
  • Ghanaian films and chiefs as indicators of religious change among the Akan in Kumasi and its migrants in Southeast Amsterdam / Louise Muller.