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Transnational Religion and Fading States (Paperback)
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Transnational Religion and Fading States (Paperback)
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Focusing on the dilution of state sovereignty, this book examines
how the crossing of state boundaries by religious movements leads
to the formation of transnational civil society. Challenging the
assertion that future conflict will be of the "clash of
civilizations" variety, it looks to the micro-origins of conflicts,
which the contributors argue are as likely to arise between states
sharing a religion as between those divided by it and more likely
to arise within rather than across state boundaries. Thus, the
chapters reveal the dual potential of religious movements as
sources of peace and security as well as of violent
conflict.Featuring an East-West, North-South approach, the volume
avoids the conventional and often ethnocentric segregation of the
experience of other regions from the European and American.
Contributors draw examples from a variety of regions and world
religions and consider self-generated movements from "below" (such
as Protestant sectarianism in Latin America or Sufi Islam in
Africa) in contrast to centralized forms of organization and
patterns of diffusion from above (such as state-certified religion
in China). Together the chapters illustrate how religion as bearer
of the politics of meaning has filled the space left by the decline
of ideology, which has created a novel transnational space for
world politics.
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