Formatting Religion - Across Politics, Education, Media, and Law

List of contents

1. Formatting Religion: Introducing the Approach 2. Sacralization and Desacralization: Political Domination and Religious Interpretation 3. A New Formatting: Myanmar´s 2015 ‘Race and Religion Laws’ 4. Monitoring Religious Freedom: Persecution, documentation and the role of political fact 5. ‘Shared Religiousness’ as a Source of Values? 6. A Time of Change in the Estonian Islamic Community: The Question of Power among the Surrendered Ones 7. Media Formatting Religion and Conflict 8. Do the Toledo Guiding Principles Politicise Religious Education? 9. Salient or Silenced: How Religion and Terrorism are Formatted in School 10. Religion, Human Rights and Juridification 11. Towards Re-Sacralization of Nordic Law?

About the author

Marius Timmann Mjaaland is Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo, Norway. He is president of the Nordic Society for Philosophy of Religion and served as Academic Director of Oslo University’s inter-facultary research program PluRel (Religion in Pluralist Societies) 2013–17. He is also the author and editor of several books, including Autopsia (2008) and The Hidden God: Luther, Philosophy and Political Theology (2016).

Summary

Over the last two decades, people and institutions have been grappling with the role of religion in socio-cultural and political conflicts worldwide. This volume delves into these complexities, and demonstrates the topical need for better understanding of how religion, culture, and law interact, especially in periods of transition

Product details

• Authors: Marius Timmann Mjaaland
• Assisted by: Marius Timmann Mjaaland (Editor), Mjaaland Marius Timmann (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780367731687
• ISBN: 978-0-367-73168-7
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Ethics, Human Rights and Global Political Thought
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Media Studies, RELIGION / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, RELIGION / History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, RELIGION / Philosophy, RELIGION / Religion & Science, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy, Politics & government, Religion & politics, Politics and government, Philosophy of religion, Religion and Politics