ISBN:
9780415509060
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (206 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics
Parallel Title:
Print version Religion, Identity and Human Security
DDC:
306.6
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Religion, Identity and Human Security seeks to demonstrate that a major source of human insecurity comes from the failure of states around the world to recognize the increasing cultural diversity of their populations which has resulted from globalization. Shani begins by setting out the theoretical foundations, dealing with the transformative effects of globalization on identity, violence and security. The second part of the volume then draws on different cases of sites of human insecurity around the globe to develop these ideas, examining themes such as:securitization of religious symbolsretr
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Preface and acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Post-secular Human Security; Structure of the book; PART I Reconceptualizing human security in a post-secular age; 1 Globalization and identity after the financial crisis; The globalization debate: historical and intellectual development; Globalization, the nation-state and identity: major claims and developments; Main criticisms; Contemporary developments: digital diasporas, Occupy and the Arab Spring; Conclusion; 2 Provincializing post-secularism; Discourse ethics; The post-secular
Description / Table of Contents:
Translation or assimilation?Typologies of the secular; The public sphere as a secularized space; Conclusion; 3 Reconceptualizing security: towards a Critical Human Security paradigm; The 'Mortal God': the national security doctrine; 'Putting a hook in the nose of the Leviathan': from national security to Human Security; Human security: critical perspectives; Critical Human Security: emancipation as desecuritization; Securitizing 'bare life': neo-liberal governmentality and human in/security after the financial crisis; Conclusion; 4 Desecularizing Human Security
Description / Table of Contents:
Beyond 'bare life'? Potentiality, empowerment and messianic immanenceDesecularizing universality: human security as caritas; Decolonizing human security; Towards a new global ethic?; Conclusion; PART II Sites of human insecurity; 5 Emancipating zoe: securitization of the veil in France; The end of multiculturalism? Migration and human in/security post-9/11; L'affaire du foulard: the French headscarf ban; The hijab as a Human Security issue: protecting and emancipating the veiled woman; Disembodying the racialized religious subject; Conclusion
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Sarva Dharma Sambhava: religion and human in/security in South Asia'Thick' and 'thin': the colonial construction of 'religion'; Spectres of Partition: communal violence in post-colonial South Asia; The 'War on Terror' and human insecurity in South Asia; Conclusion; 7 Tabunka kyōsei? Ethno-nationalism and human insecurity in Japan; A genealogy of Japanese ethno-religious nationalism; The nihonjinron: the post-war secularization of Japanese ethno-nationalism; 'Internal others': human insecurity in multi-ethnic Japan; Ganbarō Nippon: human insecurity and national identity after 3/11
Description / Table of Contents:
ConclusionConclusion: to be human is not to be resilient; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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