Religion in Motion: Rethinking Religion, Knowledge and Discourse in a Globalizing World

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Arjun Appadurai and Michael Lambek (Jordan Kynes).- Part 1. Religion, Gender, Body and Aesthetics: Stagnation or Change in the Authority over Religious Knowledge Production (Vanessa Rau).- Chapter 3. Feminine power and agency in the Ile Axe Oxum Abalo (Inga Scharf da Silva).- Chapter 4. Queering the Trinity (Teresa Forcades).- Chapter 5.  Dead or Dying: Jewish Religious Cultures and Brain Death as the Modern Mind-Body Dualism (Sarah Werren).- Chapter 6. Religion, interdependency and the ethics of inhabiting in Jill Soloway's »Transparent« (Stefan Hunglinger).- Chapter 7. Contesting Religion, or: The Impossibility of Secular Singing (Vanessa Rau).- Part 2. Religion and Economics - Interaction of Two Discursive Spheres (Philipp Ohlmann).- Chapter 8. Neoliberal Technologies, Intimacy and the Becoming of the Sacred (Ce line Righi).- Chapter 9. Faith and Professionalism in Humanitarian Encounters in Post-Earthquake Haiti (Andrea Steinke).- Chapter 10. Notions of Development in African Initiated Churches and their Implications for Development Policy (Philipp Ohlmann,  Marie-Luise Frost, Wilhelm Grab).- Part 3. The Praxis of Religion, Theologies and Knowledge Production: Overcoming the Dichotomy between Inside and Outside Perspective(s) on Religion (Julian Hensold, Rosa-Coco Schinagl).- Chapter 11. The Study of Religion as the Study of Discourse Construction (Gerhard van den Heever).- Chapter 12. Beyond a Dichotomy of Perspectives. Understanding Religion on the Base of Paul Natorp's »Logic of Boundary« (Julian Hensold).- Chapter 13. Scientific Spirituality«: The Religion for Global Thought Transformation(Manaswita Singh).- Chapter 14. An Islamic Theology of Culture: Nizari Ismaili Thought in the 21st Century (Mohammad Magout).- Part 4. Religion, Politics and Power - Decentered analyses (Jordan Kynes, Adela Taleb).- Chapter 15. Religious or political - Does it matter at all? The Analysis of a Blessing Prayer-Chain for the Hungarian Prime Minister (Anna Vancso ).- Chapter 16. Rethinking the Religion/Secularism Binary in World Politics (Md. Abdul Gaffar).- Chapter 17. Making Global Connections: Reflections on Teaching Islam and Middle Eastern History (Arun Rasiah).- Chapter 18. Configurations of European Muslim Subjectivities on the European Union Level (Adela Taleb).- Chapter 19. Science and Ideology: The History of Science in the French Epistemological Tradition as Polemical Platform for the Anticolonial Intellectual Project of Muhammad 'Abed al-Jabri (Jordan Kynes).