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"Who are you? Where do you come from? These two simple questions have so many answers and are sometimes even difficult to answer. This book tells the story of a Buddhist-Muslim community from Padum, in the Zangskar Valley - Indian Greater Himalayas. The author has gained a unique insight into this community during twenty years of research while the people shared doubts and joys with her. These experiences showed her that the meaning of "belonging" to a homeland or a confessional group, and therefore the transformation of the process of identity building in our modern world, is bridging the gap between tradition and modernity"--

Inspired by the success of the US Christian Right and the rise of the global far-right, ultraconservative Christians in Europe are joining forces and seek to reshape Europe. By assembling in anti-gender movements and sharing anti-Muslim narratives, they actively influence the political landscape and shape government policies. The contributors offer new perspectives on the protagonists and the entangled networks that work to abolish liberal democracy in Europe behind the scenes. This anthology is the first to bring together case studies on the Christian Right in over 20 European countries, providing a transnational perspective and an accessible insight for clergy, politicians, and academics alike.

How have women in many Muslim-majority countries been able to achieve surprising success despite the significant constraints imposed by conservative gender ideology and authoritarian political parties and systems? Through a comparative focus on Iran and Turkey, Mona Tajali examines the activities and strategies of women's rights groups across the ideological spectrum. She explores how various groups have negotiated with political elites in order to bolster female political representation and identifies the conditions that stimulate greater support to ease women's path to political office. Studying how women's groups manoeuvre within these structures is important to help our understanding of the gendered politics of autocratic regimes.

Inspired by the success of the US Christian Right and the rise of the global far-right, ultraconservative Christians in Europe are joining forces and seek to reshape Europe. By assembling in anti-gender movements and sharing anti-Muslim narratives, they actively influence the political landscape and shape government policies. The contributors offer new perspectives on the protagonists and the entangled networks that work to abolish liberal democracy in Europe behind the scenes. This anthology is the first to bring together case studies on the Christian Right in over 20 European countries, providing a transnational perspective and an accessible insight for clergy, politicians, and academics alike.

Long before the September 11 attacks galvanized Western attention on what has variously been called political Islam, Islamic fundamentalism, and Islamism, African nations with sizeable Muslim populations were experiencing significant transformations in the relationship between religion and state. Political Islam in West Africa explores those ongoing transformations in key countries of the Sahel region. Each country chapter provides both historical context and an examination of the changing nature of domestic politics and foreign policy in the post-September 11 world. Introductory and concluding chapters provide additional context and highlight overarching themes. A notable feature of the book is a comprehensive bibliography of Islamism in West Africa

Part I. Before the Beginning -- 1. Introduction and Methodology -- 2. Who are Indo-Mozambicans? A Chronology of Shifting Geography and Terminology -- 3. Conflating Space and Time in the Process of National Myth-making -- Part II. Religion, Race and Migration, 1947-1992 -- 4. A Brief Oral History of Indo-Mozambican Life from 1947-1992 -- 5. Indo-Mozambican Institutions: Hindu Interactions with the State -- 6. Muslims: The Making of the Self and Others among Transnational Merchants, 1961-1992 -- 7. Mixed Race Belonging in Black Majority Spaces: Mulatto, Mestico or Misto -- Part III. Concluding Thoughts on Post-coloniality -- 8. Malleable Identities & Imagined Communities in Contemporary Africa.

Introduction: (Re)Framing Women in Post-Millennial Afghanistan, Pakistan, and IranPart I: ⁰́₈The War on Terror⁰́₉ and Muslim Women: Subalternity and the Subject-AgentChapter One: A Model of Remediated Witnessing: Theoretical and Affective FrameworksChapter Two: Subalternity and the ⁰́₈War on Terror⁰́₉: Configuring Agential and Subject(ed) IdentitiesChapter Three: Cover Girls: Sharbat Gula, Aisha Mohammadzai, and Malala YousafzaiPart II: Resistant Subjectivities: Dissidence, Martyrdom, and Mourning Chapter Four: Mothers of Martyrs: Grievability and Brokenness in the Iranian Graphic NovelChapter Five: Over My Dead Body: Female Dissidence, Corporeal Testimony, and Fatal AgencyChapter Six: Literary, Visual, and Digital Afterlives: The Ethics of ExposurePostscript: Out of Frame

Through a detailed focus on two of the most influential Egyptian jihadi groups -- al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya and Islamic Jihad -- Institutionalizing Violence shows why some groups choose the path of ordinary politics and others choose violent extremism. Both groups began in the 1970s, but Jama'a al-Islamiyya eventually allied with the Muslim Brotherhood and engaged in mass-movement politics. Islamic Jihad remained sectarian and highly radical, eventually merging with al Qaeda. Addressing why ideologically similar organizations follow such different paths, Jerome Drevon shows that such splits are characteristic across the region, where once-allied jihadi groups in similar circumstances eventually followed substantially different trajectories.

The continuing fascination for the medieval -- Gazing at the Gothic: medievalism and tourism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- Medieval kingship: hollow crown or tower of strength? -- The princess in the tower? Changing representations of medieval women -- Medieval knights and chivalry -- Medieval castles and walled cities -- Positioning medieval cathedrals in the modern era -- Robin Hood: reinterpreting the medieval outlaw -- The hammer of the gods? Contested and changing imaginaries of the Vikings -- Encounters with the 'other': crusaders and muslims in medieval narratives -- Japan and medievalism: the samurai, cinema and cultural appropriation -- Fictional media and heritage from the medieval perspective: trends, issues and setting a research agenda.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction: What Will Become of Europe? -- 1. Mind the 'Cap' -- 2. Derrida's Europe: 'Greek, Christian and Beyond' -- 3. A Roman Europe of Hope: Reading Derrida with Brague -- 4. Other Shores: Insularity, Materiality and the Making (and Unmaking) of 'Europe' -- 5. Europe's Constitution for the Unborn -- 6. The Borders of Contemporary Europe: Territory, Justice and Rights -- 7. We, the Non-Europeans: Derrida with Said -- 8. Of Europe: Zionism and the Jewish Other -- 9. The European Ideal in the Face of the Muslim Other -- 10. Christianity, Secularism and the Crisis of Europe -- Index

Latin America as a multi-state region -- Latin American modernities : global, transnational, uneven, open-ended -- The interface of nation-state building and transnationalism -- The politics of exclusion : exile and its transnational impact -- International wars and conspiracy theories (with Leonardo Senkman) -- The Cold War and its transnational imprint in the Americas -- Democratizing societies confront their past : the interface of domestic and transnational factors -- The crystalization and erosion of transnational solidarity : Chavismo and the Nuestramerican rhetoric and practice (with Daniel Wajner) -- Diasporas, transnational ties and ethnic-religious minorities : Jewish and Muslim Latin Americans -- Transnational challenges and twenty-first century dilemmas.

General Introduction /E. Ike Udogu --"False Starts" and Missed Opportunities in Nigerian Politics /George Klay Kieh, Jr. --Public Policy and Economic Development in Nigeria /Kelechi A. Kalu --Strategic Reforms to Resuscitate the Nigerian Healthcare System /Philip C. Aka and Joseph A. Balogun --Christian-Muslim Conflict in Post-Civil War Nigeria: Prelude to the Fourth Republic /Olufemi Vaughan --The Nigerian Police Highway Corrupt Practices: Strategies to Curb the Transgression /Bennett A. Odunsi --Subaltern Voices and Implications for Nigerian Politics in the Fourth Republic: A Theoretical and Conceptual Analysis /Samuel Zalanga --Human Rights Conundrums in the Fourth Republic: A Search for Solutions /E. Ike Udogu

The imaginaries of moral freedom : on Chiara Bottici and Drucilla Cornell / Eduardo Mendieta -- Rethinking the imaginal / María Pía Lara -- Revisiting imaginal politics : from totalitarianism to post-truth democracies / Simona Forti -- The ontography of images : on the legal art of the imaginal / Peter Goodrich -- Bottici to the letter / Jamieson Webster -- Traversing Lacan's imaginary with Bottici's imaginal / Patricia Gherovici -- Islamic politics of imagination : the case of the Muslim Brotherhood / Dietrich Jung and Ahmed Abou El Zalaf -- Civilizations in history and myth : considerations on the imaginary and the imaginal / Jeremy C. A. Smith -- Debating imaginal politics : a response / Chiara Bottic.

For more than half a century, Saudi Arabia - through both official and non-governmental channels - has poured billions of dollars into funding and sponsoring religious activities and Islamic causes around the world. The effect has been to propagate Wahhabism, the distinctively rigid and austere form of Islam associated with the Kingdom's religious establishment, within Muslim communities on almost every continent. This volume features essays by leading scholars who explore the origins and evolution of Saudi religious transnationalism, assess ongoing debates about the impact of these influences in various regions and localities around the world, and discuss possible future trends in light of new Saudi leadership.

Was bewegt die Akteure des Politischen Islam(ismus)? Was haben sie vor und wie gehen dessen Drahtzieher vor, um Menschen zu rekrutieren, sie sozial zu binden und bei der Stange zu halten? Wie erfolgt Radikalisierung und extremistische Indoktrination in den Moscheen, im Internet und andernorts? Wie lassen sich relevante Finanzströme zu Hintermännern und Regierungen zurückverfolgen? Im Spannungsfeld von Islamfeindlichkeit auf der einen Seite sowie Terrorismus und Unterwanderung liberal-demokratisch verfasster Gesellschaften auf der anderen Seite ist es unabdingbar, die Auftraggeber des Politischen Islamismus zu identifizieren sowie Muslime vor deren radikaler Ideologie und Agenda zu bewahren. Denn in den weltweit stattfindenden hybriden Auseinandersetzun-gen, den Kampagnen um Geld, Macht und Einfluss, agieren Vertreter des politischen Islamismus mit subversiven Mitteln, um ihre islamistischen Ziele durchzusetzen. Die Beiträge in diesem Band bieten einen frischen, umfassenden und tiefen Einblick in die vielschichtige Thematik des Politischen Islamismus im Kontext hybrider Bedrohungen. Die hierbei diskutierten Fragen behandeln unter anderem die archaische Prägung, Antisemitismus, Cyberangriffe, Desinformationskampagnen, Geschlechtergleichheit, Innovation, Klimaschutz, Kryptowährungen, das Recht als Waffe und Schutzraum sowie die Religionsfreiheit.