The Secular Sacred: Emotions of Belonging and the Perils of Nation and Religion

1. Emotional Entanglements of Sacrality and Secularity: Engaging the Paradox; Markus Balkenhol, Ernst van den Hemel, Irene Stengs. - Part 1. Culture.- 2. The Boomerang Effect of Culturalized Religion: Nativist Affect Vs. Non-Consensus-Based Collaboration ; Ernst van den Hemel.- 3. "We" and "The Others" as Constituents of Symbolic Politics: On the Populist Exploitation of Long-lasting Nationalist Sentiments and Resentments Regardings Citizenship in Germany; Irene Götz.- Part 2. Public Sphere.- Spatial Piety: Shia Religious Processions and the Politics of Contestations of Public Spaces in Northern Nigeria; Murtala Ibrahim.- 4. Religion, Aesthetics, and Hurt Sentiment: On the Visibility and Erasure of a Muslim Minority in Hindu India ; Stefan Binder.- Part 3. Tolerance.- 5. "Homo Sanctus": Religious Contestations and the Sanctification of Human Rights in Vietnam; Oscar Salemink.- 6. Secularist Nativism: National Identity and the Religious Other in the Netherlands ; Jan Willem Duyvendak.- 7. Dutch Tolerance in Black and White; Alex van Stipriaan.- Part 4. Images.- 8. Worshipers and Iconoclasts: Clashes about Colonial Statues in the Netherlands ; Markus Balkenhol.- 9. Rooted in the Sacred? On Mark Rothko, Tears Flowing, and Enargeia ; Herman Roodenburg.- Part 5. Bodies.- 10. Disgust and Difference: Conflicting Sensations of the Sacred; Jojada Verrips.- 11. Samba Struggles: Carnival Parades, Race and Religious Nationalism in Brazil; Martijn Oosterbaan and Adriano Santos Godoy.- 12. United in Competitive Mourning. Commemorative Spectacle in Tribute to King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand; Irene Stengs.- Epilogue; Birgit Meyer.