Religion, Power, and Resistance New Ideas for a Divided World

• Other Authors: Halafoff, Anna (Editor), Han, Sam (Editor), Starkey, Caroline (Editor), Spickard, James (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: Humanities; Social interaction; sociology of religion; post-colonial; reflexivity; epistemology; race; religion; violence; South Africa; decoloniality; Chinese religion; secularization; Xunzi; Durkheim; identity; African Pentecostalism; integration; transnationalism; diaspora; religious diversity; religions; law; media; education; religious strength; sex; gender; Canada; religion and migration; intersectionality; popular religions; multiple modernities; lived religion; power; resistance; social theory; holistic spirituality; Ghana's New Churches; ideology; dominant ideology; alternative ideology; political power; social constructionism; Islamism; Islam; Shi'ism; spiritualism; rituals; Iran; non-religion; atheism; persecution; policy; diversity; young people; spirituality; complexity; hybridity; n/a
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This volume explores the intersections of religion, power, and resistance in a fast-changing world. The authors herein seek to disrupt the sociology of religion's dominant paradigms, especially its overemphasis in Europe and the United States, as well as its preference for official religions as...