Introduction: Religion, Identity and Security
Part I: Reconceptualizing Human Security in a Post-Global Age
1. Globalization and Identity After the Financial Crisis
2. Globalization, Religion and Violence
3. Reconceptualizing Security: Towards a Critical Human Security Paradigm
Part II: Sites of Human Insecurity
4.De/Securitizing ‘Religious’ Symbols
5. The Retreat from Multiculturalism
6. The rise of exclusivist ethno-religious identities post- 9/11
7. State religion, colonization and the ‘racialization’ of migration
8. Conclusion
Biography
Giorgio Shani is the Director of the Social Science Research Institute and a Senior Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at International Christian University, Japan.
'Through an erudite analysis of recent debates about the veil in France, ethno-religious tensions in South Asia, and ethno-nationalism in Japan, Giorgio Shani defends a ‘post-secular’ approach to human security that openly embraces cultural diversity and religious difference. This lucid and wide-ranging book will interest students of globalisation, identity politics, post-colonialism, and critical security studies.' - Andrew Linklater, Aberystwyth University, UK.
'This excellent book is not only an original contribution to critical human security studies, but more broadly, an outstanding remapping of postsecular thinking in International Relations.' - Mustapha Kamal Pasha, Aberystwyth University, UK.
'Resistance to an increasingly globalized mass society is now accompanied by an almost desperate search for community and a less-than-gracious retreat from the Enlightenment-based multiculturalism. The aggressive, often violent affirmation of religious identities comes as part of this package. In a marvelous intervention in the debate on the agenda of peace studies, Giorgio Shani argues that human security now poses an altogether different kind of challenge.' - Ashis Nandy, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, India
