NEW BOOK:
Sturla J. Stålsett and Oddbjørn Leirvik (eds.)
with Peter Beyer
The Power of
Faithshs
in Global Politics
Oslo: Novus forlag 2004
ISBN 82-7099-398-0
192 pp.
Contents:
Editors’ Preface: Religion and Politics in a Globalized Age – between Integration and
Resistance
I.
RELIGION, POWER, AND STATE
Introduction: Controlling the Power of Faiths,
by Peter Beyer
The Power of the Faithful: Powerful Actors with Clear Intentions or Power Everywhere?
by Pål Repstad
Should the State Support Religion? Human Rights and Sociological Perspectives
by Ingvill Thorson Plesner
Globalizing Secularity? Human Rights between Belief and the Pragmatics of Civility
by Tordis Borchgrevink
II
RELIGION, GLOBALIZATION AND NATIONAL IDENTITY
The Politics of Women’s Rights in the Middle East
by Turid Smith Polfus
Betraying the Nation: The Assasination of Yitzhak Rabin as an Expression of a ReligioPolitical Crisis of Identity in Israel
by Anne Mailin Selland
Religion and National Politics in Turkey: Alevism, Secularism and Globalization
by Hege Irene Markussen
Cuban Pentecostals – between Faith and Social Commitment
by Lina Snoek
Religious Nationalism in Contemporary Norway
by Torkel Brekke
III
RELIGION, SOCIAL ACTIVISM, AND THEOLOGY
Interfaith Dialogue and Liberation Theology: between Liberal Multiculturalism and
Interreligious Activism
by Oddbjørn Leirvik
Liberation Theology: Religious Resistance to Globalization? The Chiapas Uprising as a
Case
by Sturla Stålsett
Economic Globalization and the Question of Ecological Justice: Voicing Theological
Concerns from the Periphery of the ”Global Village”
by Ben-Willie K. Golo
IV
RELIGION AND GLOBALIZATION REVISITED
Liberal and Conservative Responses to Globalisation: the Case of the Norwegian
Pentecostal Missionary Aril Edvardsen
by Oddbjørn Leirvik
Globalisation and the Hidden Transcript: Religion as Everyday Resistance
by Sturla Stålsett
Faith, Power, and Heuristic Devices: Religion and Globalization Revisited
by Peter Beyer
Bibliograhpy
List of contributors