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Religious Identities and the Global South

Part of the New Approaches to Religion and Power Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-60738-8

ISBN: 978-3-030-60737-1

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Jan 5, 2021

1 - 10 of 14 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction

Wilfred, Felix

Pages: 1 –19

[The introduction starts with a brief but pointed characterization of the religious situation in the Global North and the South, and analyzes the discourse on “return of religion.” The chapter provides an initial clarification of the key concepts of identity, religion, and globalization, employed...
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Chapter 2Religion: A Question of Identity

Wilfred, Felix

Pages: 21 –39

[Globalization has created conditions for a shift from reification of religions to a fluid understanding of them. Religious identities keep evolving today and continue to play a crucial role in international politics. In the Global South, religious identities have been also a dangerous source of...
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Chapter 3Religious Identities: From the Colonial to the Global

Wilfred, Felix

Pages: 41 –63

[There are many colonial wounds to be healed and wrinkles to be ironed out and they relate to the issue of religious identities as well. This chapter takes a critical view of the Global Northern interpretation of contemporary religious scenario through the frame of secularization and...
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Chapter 4Conflicting Religious Identities: The Political Turn

Wilfred, Felix

Pages: 65 –84

[Today we are assisting at religious conflicts, especially in the Global South, but increasingly also in the North due to migration and Islamophobia. Terrorissm, brutal killings, bombing, and beheading in the name of religion are escalating. They know no boundaries. Fear and insecurity are writ...
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Chapter 5Religious Fundamentalism in the Age of Globalization

Wilfred, Felix

Pages: 85 –103

[Continuing the thought of the previous chapter, the present one attempts to study religious fundamentalism in the context of globalization. It questions the simplistic and naïve thesis that fundamentalism is a resistance to modernity. While analyzing fundamentalism and its dynamics, it...
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Chapter 6Novel Ways of Being Religious

Wilfred, Felix

Pages: 105 –126

[This chapter goes into the postmodern culture which accompanies the process of globalization—both in the Global North and in the Global South, and enquires its implications for the practice of religion. In this context, it shows how across continents new ways of being religious are developed....
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Chapter 7Globalization and New Religious Movements

Wilfred, Felix

Pages: 127 –159

[After clarifications of certain concepts like, religious movements, sects, cults, and boundaries, the chapter studies how and under what social and cultural conditions new religious movements got to develop from mid-twentieth century, and how they negotiate global conditions and succeed to...
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Chapter 8Religions in Diaspora: The Case of South Asian Migrants

Wilfred, Felix

Pages: 161 –195

[After a brief elucidation of the concept of diaspora, the chapter examines the case of South Asian migrants in relation to their religious past and under contemporary global conditions. As an illustration, the chapter goes into the case of South Asian Christian migrants and the transformation...
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Chapter 9Religious Freedom: Beyond the Liberal Paradigm

Wilfred, Felix

Pages: 197 –221

[The chapter views the question of religious freedom in the South, as a much larger issue than that of a human right or a matter of conscience. In this context, the chapter presents a challenge to the conventional liberal paradigm in the understanding of religious freedom. To make the point...
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Chapter 10Religious Identities by Choice and the Politics of Conversion

Wilfred, Felix

Pages: 223 –245

[This chapter continues the argument of the previous chapter on religious freedom by examining the issue of conversion in the context of today. This has become a major issue in the experience of the peoples of the Global South, also because of the colonial heritage. The chapter points out how...

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