The Secular Sacred: Emotions of Belonging and the Perils of Nation and Religion 1st Edition

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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3030380505
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9783030380502
• Author: Markus Balkenhol; ‎Ernst van den Hemel; ‎Irene Stengs

How do religious emotions and national sentiment become entangled across the world? In exploring this theme, The Secular Sacred focuses on diverse topics such as the dynamic roles of Carnival in Brazil, the public contestation of ritual in Northern Nigeria, and the culturalization of secular tolerance in the Netherlands.

The contributions focus on the ways in which sacrality and secularity mutually inform, enforce, and spill over into each other. The case studies offer a bottom-up, practice-oriented approach in which the authors are wary to use categories of religion and secular as neutral descriptive terms. The Secular Sacred will be of interest to sociologists, anthropologists, ethnographers, political scientists, and social psychologists, as well as students and scholars of cultural studies and semiotics

Table contents:

1. Introduction: Emotional Entanglements of Sacrality and Secularity—Engaging the Paradox

Part I. Culture

2. The Boomerang-Effect of Culturalized Religion: The Impact of the Populist Radical Right on Confessional Politics in the Netherlands

3. ‘We’ and ‘The Others’ as Constituents of Symbolic Politics: On the Populist Exploitation of Long-lasting Nationalist Sentiments and Resentments Regarding Citizenship in Germany

Part II. Public Space

4. Religion, Aesthetics, and Hurt Sentiment: On the Visibility and Erasure of a Muslim Minority in India

5. Spatial Piety: Shia Religious Processions and the Politics of Contestation of Public Space in Northern Nigeria

6. Samba Struggles: Carnaval Parades, Race and Religious Nationalism in Brazil

Part III. Tolerance

7. Homo Sanctus: Religious Contestations and the Sanctification of Heritage and Human Rights in Vietnam

8. Secularist Nativism: National Identity and the Religious Other in the Netherlands

9. Dutch Tolerance in Black and White: From Religious Pragmatism to Racialized Ideology

Part IV. Images

10. Colonial Heritage and the Sacred: Contesting the Statue of Jan Pieterszoon Coen in the Netherlands

11. Rooted in the Sacred? On Mark Rothko, Tears Flowing, and Enargeia

Part V. Bodies

12. Disgust and Difference: Conflicting Sensations of the Sacred

13. United in Competitive Mourning: Commemorative Spectacle in Tribute to King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand

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