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Faith and the Fragility of Justice
Responses to Gender-Based Violence in South Africa
Rutgers University Press
Faith and the Fragility of Justice illuminates the role of religion in the intersection of race, gender, and power by showing how South African Christian organizations’ responses to apartheid follow a clear path for their attention to gender-based violence in the democracy, arguing that theologies that promote racial justice can facilitate or constrain the pursuit of gender justice.
Icons Axed, Freedoms Lost
Russian Desecularization and a Ukrainian Alternative
Rutgers University Press
In the years between the Soviet collapse and the Russo-Ukrainian war, Russia went from persecuting believers to jailing irreligionists, while Ukraine solidified religious pluralism and tolerance. The book richly documents and explains the development of this contrast while offering an original theoretical and methodological perspective on desecularization (the resurgence of religion’s societal role).
Politicizing Islam in Austria
The Far-Right Impact in the Twenty-First Century
By Farid Hafez and Reinhard Heinisch
Rutgers University Press
Politicizing Islam in Austria is a comprehensive examination of the influence of the far right on the Austrian political landscape and the impact its anti-Muslim agenda has had in a country whose longstanding state recognition of the Muslim community dates to as early as 1912.
Unruly Souls
The Digital Activism of Muslim and Christian Feminists
Rutgers University Press
This book explores the intersectional feminist activism of young people within Islam and Evangelical Christianity. Deemed unruly souls due to their sexuality, gender, or race, these activists employ the creative tactics of digital media to seek justice and display their inherent value. The case studies demonstrate the overlaps between the hybrid identities of young Americans and the playful and interstitial aspects of digital media.
Borders of Belief
Religious Nationalism and the Formation of Identity in Ireland and Turkey
Rutgers University Press
Why have modern nationalists built religious identity as the foundational signifier of nationality in an increasingly secular world? The cases of 20th century Ireland and Turkey reveal the answer: religious nationalism is not a knee-jerk reaction to secular modernization, but a tool that forges new and independent national identities.
Abusing Religion
Literary Persecution, Sex Scandals, and American Minority Religions
Rutgers University Press
Why do Americans presume to know “what’s really going on” in marginal religions? Sex abuse happens in all communities, but American religious outsiders often face disproportionate allegations of sexual abuse. Abusing Religion argues that sex abuse in minority religious communities is an American problem, not (merely) a religious one.
Regulating Difference
Religious Diversity and Nationhood in the Secular West
Rutgers University Press
Transnational migration has contributed to the rise of religious diversity in Western societies. Regulating Difference employs a transatlantic comparison to show how nation-building, religious heritage-making and divergent interpretations of secularism are co-implicated in shaping religious diversity. It argues that religious diversity has become central for governing national and urban spaces.
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