Material Perspectives on Religion, Conflict, and Violence

Things of Conflict
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-51747-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 19, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion

How do objects become contested in settings characterized by (violent) conflict? Why are some things contested by religious actors? How do religious actors mobilize things in conflict situations and how are conflict and violence experienced by religious groups? This volume explores relations between materiality, religion, and violence by drawing upon two fields of scholarship that have rarely engaged with one another: research on religion and (violent) conflict and the material turn within religious studies. This way, this volume sets the stage for the development of new conceptual and methodological directions in the study of religion-related violent conflict that takes materiality seriously.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Liere, Lucien van

Meinema, Erik

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsethik, Weltethos
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

1 Material Religion, Conflict, and Violence

Lucien van Liere and Erik Meinema

2 Accessing Things of Conflicts

Poking Anthropology with Guns, Martyrdom, and Religion

Younes Saramifar

3 Material Politics, Violence, and Religion

A Comparative Study of Islam and Buddhism in the People’s Republic of China

Daan F. Oostveen

4 Bypassing the Bulldozer

The Materiality of State Violence on Religion in Kibera, Nairobi

Tammy Wilks

5 When Times Are Out of Joint

Contestations of Official Temporal Religious Forms

Christoph Baumgartner

6 Witchcraft, Terrorism, and ‘Things of Conflict’ in Coastal Kenya

Erik Meinema

7 What’s in That Picture?

Humanitarian Photographs and the Christian Iconography of Suffering and Violence

Lucien van Liere

8 The Significance of Materiality in Conflict Analysis, Healing, and Reconciliation

Joram Tarusarira

9 A Ring of Peace around the Oslo Synagogue

Muslims and Jews Expressing Interfaith Solidarity in Response to the Paris and Copenhagen Attacks

Margaretha A. van Es

Afterword

Things for Thought

Birgit Meyer

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lucien van Liere, Ph.D. (2006), is Associate Professor of Religion and Violence at Utrecht University. He has published many articles and book chapters on religion, conflict, and violence and has edited several volumes including Contesting Religious Identities (Brill 2017).

Erik Meinema, Ph.D. (2021), is lecturer in Religious Studies at Utrecht University. His research focuses on religious coexistence in Kenya and he has published peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Religion, Africa, and the Journal of Religion in Africa.

Contributors are Christoph Baumgartner, Margaretha van Es, Lucien van Liere, Erik Meinema, Birgit Meyer, Daan F. Oostveen, Younes Saramifar, Joram Tarusarira, Tammy Wilks.