Overview
- Integrates concepts developed in recent religious studies with concepts employed in the study of nations and nationalism
- Investigates the crucial and timely issue of the relationship between religion and populism (or neo-populism) in western democracies
- Opens up a new research track with genuinely multidisciplinary methodological approaches
Part of the book series: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series (CAL)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Culture
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Public Space
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About this book
How do religious emotions and national sentiment become entangled across the world? In exploring this theme, The Secular Sacred focuses on diverse topics such as the dynamic roles of Carnival in Brazil, the public contestation of ritual in Northern Nigeria, and the culturalization of secular tolerance in the Netherlands.
The contributions focus on the ways in which sacrality and secularity mutually inform, enforce, and spill over into each other. The case studies offer a bottom-up, practice-oriented approach in which the authors are wary to use categories of religion and secular as neutral descriptive terms. The Secular Sacred will be of interest to sociologists, anthropologists, ethnographers, political scientists, and social psychologists, as well as students and scholars of cultural studies and semiotics.
Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Reviews
“While the secular materialism of religious institutions has long received extensive critical discussion, the complex mutual entailment of secular and religious ideas and practices has attracted far less attention. These attractively written, empirically grounded, and critically oriented essays offer revelatory insights into the play of secularity and religiosity in persons, images, spaces, ideologies, and institutions.” — Michael Herzfeld, Ernest E. Monrad Research Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University, and IIAS Visiting Professor of Critical Heritage Studies, Leiden University
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Markus Balkenhol is Researcher at the Meertens Institute, The Netherlands.
Ernst van den Hemel is Researcher at the Meertens Institute, The Netherlands.
Irene Stengs is Professor at the Vrije University of Amsterdam, and Senior Researcher at the Meertens Institute, The Netherlands.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Secular Sacred
Book Subtitle: Emotions of Belonging and the Perils of Nation and Religion
Editors: Markus Balkenhol, Ernst van den Hemel, Irene Stengs
Series Title: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38050-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38049-6Published: 02 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38052-6Published: 02 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-38050-2Published: 01 September 2020
Series ISSN: 2947-6100
Series E-ISSN: 2947-6119
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 296
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 31 illustrations in colour
Topics: Political Sociology, Sociology of Religion, Sociology of Citizenship