Introduction / Laura Copier. Maternal martyrdom : Alien 3 and the power of the female martyr / Recovery of perverted religion : internal power processes and the vicissitudes of religious experience / André Droogers -- Symbolic violence : religion and empowerment / Mark Juergensmeyer -- Political theology : the authority of god / Avishai Margalit -- Explaining the religious global revival : the Egyptian case / Talal Asad -- Nation. Seeing neighborhood : images of American identity / David Morgan -- Visible and the invisible in south Asia / Peter Van der Veer -- Power of Mary in secessionist warfare : Catholicism and political crisis in Boungainville, Papua New Guinea / Anna-Karina Hermkens -- Mourid Brotherhood at the center of Senegalese political life : a dialectic of state and religious power / Cheikh Guèye, Olivia Gervasoni -- Sharia and state in the Sudan : from late colonialism to late Islamism / Shamil Jeppie -- "Bolivarian" anti semitism / Claudio Lomnitz, Rafael Sánchez -- Individual : between powerlessness and empowerment. Power of the less powerful : making memory on a pilgrimage to Lourdes / Catrien Notermans -- "Without my headscarf I feel naked" : "veiling", laïcité politics, and Islamist discourse in north Cameroon / José C.M. van Santen -- Religion and powerlessness : Elena in Nothing is missing / Mieke Bal -- Religion and power : artistic representations. Music, religion, and power : Qawwali as empowering disempowerment / Rokus de Groot -- John Cage and the mystification of musical silence / Jael Kraut -- Maternal martyrdom : Alien 3 and the power of the female martyr / Laura Copier.
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