- Title
- Globalising syncretism and the governance state: beyond bipolar thinking on religious and political violence
- Creator
- Imre, Rob; Jose, Jim
- Relation
- Change and Stability: State, Religion and Politics in the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa p. 123-142
- Relation
- http://unum.ptt.net.pl/?id=110
- Publisher
- UNUM Publishing House
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2010
- Description
- In this paper we argue that the conjunction of religion and politics through eruptions of violence (in various locations, especially the Middle East and North Africa) are codetermined and co-dependent through syncretic manifestations rather than a result of some kind of basic clash between different, self-contained systems of ideas and values. In our view the vicissitudes of religious fervour in the Middle East and North African region (and elsewhere) are linked to issues of development and social change in which long-cherished traditions are confronted by seemingly inexorable forces beyond the control of those being affected by them. However, it is not simply a matter of framing the problem of religious violence in terms of religion vs modernity, as this would simply be another way of stating the "clash of civilisations" thesis. The idea that the problem is one of religion vs modernity cannot be sustained in such a stark form.
- Subject
- religion; politics; violence; governance; globalisation; political violence; religious violence
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/927291
- Identifier
- uon:10099
- Identifier
- ISBN:9788376430447
- Language
- eng
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