Religious Othering: Global Dimensions

ISBN-13: 9781032280677 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 216 str.

Mark Juergensmeyer; Kathleen Moore; Dominic Sachsenmaier

Opis

This volume explores a political and religious phenomenon of xenophobia and religious exclusion that has emerged in the wake of globalization through research approaches such as participant observation, empathetic interviews, and close textual reading. Suitable for students and scholars in religious studies and social sciences.

Spis treści

Introduction: "Thank God We’re Not Like Them", Mark Juergensmeyer, Kathleen Moore, and Dominic Sachsenmaier; 1. The Big Lie: Its Model, Making, and Motive, James Aho; 2. Why Shari’a Matters: Law, Ethics, and the Muslim Other in the United States, Kathleen Moore; 3. Buddhist Constructions of the Muslim Other, Michael Jerryson; 4. Consuming Difference: Coffee and the Specter of the Islamic Other, Jamel Velji; 5. From Colonialism to Nazism to Color-Blindness: Understanding Anti-Muslim Racism in Austria and Germany, Farid Hafez; 6. "They Are from Mars": The Othering of Jews and Muslims in European Legal Debates, Mareike Riedel; 7. Albanian Muslims: Religious Othering and Notions of European Islam, Flora Ferati-Sachsenmaier; 8. Othering in ISIS, Mark Juergensmeyer; 9. The Religious and the Secular: Othering in Legal and Political Debates in Palestine in 2013, Irene Schneider; 10. Disrupted Loyalties? 21^st-Century Sinicization of the Catholic Other, Christoph Zimmer; 11. Religious Othering in Hindi Films, Diana Dimitrova.