Religious Othering
Global Dimensions
- 184 pages
- English
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Religious Othering
Global Dimensions
About this book
Perhaps the most disturbing feature of globalization is the emergence of a new tribalism, an attitude expressed in the common phrase, "thank God we're not like them." Religious Othering: Global Dimensions explores this political and religious phenomenon.
Why are these new xenophobic movements erupting around the world at this moment in history, and what are the features of religious identity that seem to appeal to them? How do we make sense of the strident forms of religious exclusion that have been a part of the past and re-emerged around the world in recent years? This book brings together research scholars from different fields who have had to answer these questions in their own ground-breaking research on religious-othering movements. Written in an engaging, personal style, these essays share these scholars' attempts to get inside the worldviews of these neo-nationalists through such research approaches as participant observation, empathetic interviews, and close textual reading.
Religious Othering: Global Dimensions is of interest to students and scholars in religious studies and the social sciences. In addition, anyone concerned about the rise of religious extremism in the contemporary world will be fascinated with these journeys into the mindsets of dogmatic and sometimes violent religious groups.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: “Thank God We’re Not Like Them”
- 1 The Big Lie: Its Model, Making, and Motive
- 2 Why Shari’a Matters: Law, Ethics, and the Muslim Other in the United States
- 3 Buddhist Constructions of the Muslim Other
- 4 Consuming Difference: Coffee and the Specter of the Islamic Other
- 5 From Colonialism to Nazism to Color-Blindness: Understanding Anti-Muslim Racism in Austria and Germany
- 6 “They Are from Mars”: The Othering of Jews and Muslims in European Legal Debates
- 7 Albanian Muslims: Religious Othering and Notions of European Islam
- 8 Othering in ISIS
- 9 The Religious and the Secular: Othering in Legal and Political Debates in Palestine in 2013
- 10 Disrupted Loyalties? 21st-Century Sinicization of the Catholic Other
- 11 Religious Othering in Hindi Films
- Index