1st Edition
The Role of Religion in Struggles for Global Justice Faith in justice?
Introduction: Faith in Justice? The Role of Religion in Struggles for Global Justice
Claudia Baumgart-Ochse, Katharina Glaab, Peter J. Smith and Elizabeth Smythe
1. ‘Power Differences’ and ‘the Power of Difference’: The Dominance of Secularism as Ontological Injustice
Erin K. Wilson
2. Emancipation or Accommodation? Faith and Justice in a Globalized Africa
Cecelia Lynch
3. A Climate for Justice? Faith-based Advocacy on Climate Change at the United Nations
Katharina Glaab
4. The United Nations Alliance of Civilisations and Global Justice
Jeffrey Haynes
5. Faith Groups and Justice: A Source of Solidarity or Division in the Global Justice Movement? The World Social Forum and Occupy Wall Street as Case Studies
Peter J. Smith and Elizabeth Smythe
6. Keep the Faith: Progress, Social Justice and the Papacy
Mariano Pasquale Barbato
7. Claiming Justice for Israel/Palestine: The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Campaign and Christian Organizations
Claudia Baumgart-Ochse
Conclusion
Peter J. Smith, Katharina Glaab, Claudia Baumgart-Ochse and Elizabeth Smythe
Biography
Peter J. Smith is Professor of Political Science at Athabasca University, Alberta, Canada. His current research interests include new communication technologies, globalization, religion, trade politics, transnational networks, democracy, and citizenship. He is the co-editor with Sabine Dreher of Religious activism in the global economy: Promoting, reforming, or resisting neoliberal globalization? (2016).
Katharina Glaab is an Associate Professor in Global Change and International Relations at the Department of International Development and Environment Studies at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. Her research and teaching revolves around questions of normative change and the politics of knowledge. She has published on norms in International Relations, conflicts around agricultural biotechnology in China and India, faith actors and climate change, and critical research on power.
Claudia Baumgart-Ochse is a senior research fellow at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, Germany. She holds a PhD from Frankfurt University. Her research interests include the Middle East conflict and its religious dimensions as well as the role of religious non-state actors in global governance. Currently, she co-directs a research project on religious NGOs in the United Nations, funded by the German Research Foundation.
Elizabeth Smythe is a Professor of Political Science and coordinator of the Political Economy Program at Concordia University of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Her research interests include international trade and investment agreements, food standards, social movements, and the WSF. She is a co-editor of the Handbook of World Social Forum activism (2012).
