1st Edition
Religious Othering Global Dimensions
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? 21st-Century Sinicization of the Catholic Other, Christoph Zimmer; 11. Religious Othering in Hindi Films, Diana Dimitrova.
Biography
Mark Juergensmeyer is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and William F. Podlich Distinguished Fellow and Professor of Religious Studies at Claremont McKenna College.
Kathleen Moore is Professor of Religious Studies and Associate Dean of Humanities at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Dominic Sachsenmaier is Professor of Modern China and Global History and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Göttingen University.
