1st Edition
Routledge International Handbook of Religion in Global Society
Like any other subject, the study of religion is a child of its time. Shaped and forged over the course of the twentieth century, it has reflected the interests and political situation of the world at the time. As the twenty-first century unfolds, it is undergoing a major transition along with religion itself. This volume showcases new work and new approaches to religion which work across boundaries of religious tradition, academic discipline and region.
The influence of globalizing processes has been evident in social and cultural networking by way of new media like the internet, in the extensive power of global capitalism and in the increasing influence of international bodies and legal instruments. Religion has been changing and adapting too. This handbook offers fresh insights on the dynamic reality of religion in global societies today by underscoring transformations in eight key areas: Market and Branding; Contemporary Ethics and Virtues; Intimate Identities; Transnational Movements; Diasporic Communities; Responses to Diversity; National Tensions; and Reflections on ‘Religion’. These themes demonstrate the handbook’s new topics and approaches that move beyond existing agendas.
Bringing together scholars of all ages and stages of career from around the world, the handbook showcases the dynamism of religion in global societies. It is an accessible introduction to new ways of approaching the study of religion practically, theoretically and geographically.
Introduction: Religion in Global Societies
Linda Woodhead, François Gauthier, Jayeel Cornelio and Tuomas Martikainen
Part I: Market and Branding
1. Christian Churches’ Responses to Marketization: Comparing Institutional and Non-denominational Discourse and Practice
Marcus Moberg
2. ‘The Greatest Leader of All’: The Faces of Leadership and Christianity in the Contemporary Brazil (1980s–2010s)
Karina Kosicki Bellotti
3. JPCC: A Megachurch Brand Story in Indonesia
Jeaney Yip, Susan Ainsworth and Chaung Yau Hoon
4. Rebranding the soul: Rituals for the Well-made Man in Market Society
Anne Christine Hornborg
Part II: Contemporary Ethics and Values
5. The Prosperity Ethic: The Rise of the New Prosperity Gospel
Jayeel Cornelio and Erron Medina
6. Islamic Ethics in Muslim Eurasia: Prosperity Theology vs. Renunciation?
Aurélie Biard
7. Public Morality and the Transformation of Islamic Media in Indonesia
Arie Setyaningrum Pamungkas
8. Pious-Modern Subjectivities in the Palestine West Bank: Their Formations and Contours between the Familial, the Local and the Global
Ferial Khalifa
9. ‘We Are Overfed’: Young Evangelicals, Globalization, and Social Justice
Catherine Rivera
10. ‘Mediacosmologies’: The Convergence and Renewal of Indigenous Religiosities in Cyberspace
Laurent Jérôme
Part III: Intimate Identities
11. Saints, Sinners, and Same-Sex Marriages: Ecclesiological Identity in the Church of England and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark
Karen Marie Leth-Nissen
12. When Two Worlds Collide: Asian Christian LGBTQs Coming Out to Parents
Joy K.C. Tong, Samuel Kang, Peter Lee and Hyo-Seok Lim
13. Gender Politics and Education in the Gülen Movement
Duygun Göktürk
14. Global Catholicism, Gender Conversion and Masculinity
Ester Gallo
Part IV: Transnational Movements
15. Pilgrimage, Travelling Gurus and Transnational Networks: The Lay Meditation Movement in Contemporary Chinese Societies
Ngar-sze Lau
16. Globalization and Asceticism: Foreigner Ascetics on the Threshold of Hindu Religious Orders
Daniela Bevilacqua
17. Maya Revival Movements: Between Transnationality and Authenticity
Manéli Farahmand
18. Defending Tradition and Confronting Secularity: The Catholic Buen Pastor Institute
Esteban Rozo and Hugo Cárdenas
19. The Globalization of the Catholic Church: History, Organization, Theology
Isacco Turina
Part V: Diasporic Communities
20. Dialectics between Transnationalism and Diaspora: The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
Katrin Langewiesche
21. Transnational Religious Movement: The Turkish Süleymanlı in Indonesia
Firdaus Wajdi
22. Youth Buddhists in Australia: Negotiating Transnational Flows
Kim Lam
23. The Formation of Global Chinese Identities
Joshua Dao Wei Sim
24. Church as a Homeland and Home as a Place of Worship: The Transformation of Religiosity among Georgian Migrants in Paris
Sophie Zviadadze
Part VI: Responses to Diversity
25. Interreligious Dialogue (IRD) in International Politics: From the Margins of the Religious Field to the Centre of Civil Society
Karsten Lehmann
26. Faith, Identity and Practices: The Current Refugee Crisis and its Challenges to Religious Diversity in Southern Europe
Roberta Premazzi and Viviana Ricucci
27. Urban Public Space and the Emergence of Interdenominational Syncretism
Peter van Gielle Ruppe
28. ‘As Local as Possible, as International as Necessary’: Investigating the Place of Religious and Faith-Based Actors in the Localization of the International Humanitarian System
Olivia Wilkinson
29. Religion, National Identity and Foreign Policy: The Case of Eastern Christians and the French Political Imaginary
Alexis Artaud de La Ferrière
30. Religious Echoes in Secular Dialogues: Global Glimpses of Peacebuilding
Xicoténtcatl Martinez Ruiz
31. City of Gods and Goods: Exploring Religious Pluralism in the Neoliberal City
Gina Lende (with Bankole Tokunbo)
Part VII: National Tensions
32. Islam, Politics and Legitimacy: The Role of Saudi Arabia in the Rise of Salafism and Jihadism
Mohamed-ali Adraoui
33. Religion and Nationalism in Post-Soviet Space: Between State, Society and Nation
Denis Brylov and Tetiana Kalenychenko
34. Religion, Nationalism and Transnationalism in the South Caucasus
Ansgar Jödicke
35. The Sacred and Secular-Economic: A Cross-Country Comparison of the Regulation of the Economic Activities of Religious Organizations. Perspectives from France, Germany, Japan, Thailand, Turkey, and the United States
David Malitz
36. Religious Identities in Times of Crisis: An Analysis of Europe
Didem Doganyilmaz Duman
37. Poetry in Iran’s Contemporary Theo-Political Culture
Maryam Ala Amjadi
Part VIII: Reflections on ‘Religion’
38. Questioning the Boundaries of ‘Religious’ and Non-Religious’ Actions and Meanings
Carlo Genova
39. Religion in the Anthropocene: Nonhuman Agencies, (Re)Enchantment and the Emergence of a New Sensibility
Oriol Poveda
40. Science and Religion in a Global Context
Michael Fuller
41. Religion Through the Lens of ‘Marketization’ and ‘Lifestyle’
François Gauthier
Biography
Jayeel Cornelio is Associate Professor and the Director of the Development Studies Program at the Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines.
François Gauthier is Professor of Religious Studies at the Social Sciences Department of the Université de Fribourg, Switzerland.
Tuomas Martikainen is the Director of the Migration Institute of Finland, Finland.
Linda Woodhead is Distinguished Professor of Religion and Society at Lancaster University, UK.
The four editors of the Routledge Handbook of Religion in Global Society are to be congratulated on bringing together a stellar team of scholars, both established and emergent, in a publication that is vibrant, varied and packed with information. The book is characterised by inclusivity of subject matter and approaches, and is above all truly contemporary, providing readers with a snapshot of religion in the evermore globalised and interdependent twenty-first century.
Carole M. Cusack, Professor, The University of Sydney
