Religion, Identity and Human Security

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Religion, Identity and Human Security seeks to demonstrate that a major source of human insecurity comes from the failure of states around the world to recognize the increasing cultural diversity of their populations which has resulted from globalization. Shani begins by setting out the theoretical foundations, dealing with the transformative effects of globalization on identity, violence and security. The second part of the volume then draws on different cases of sites of human insecurity around the globe to develop these ideas, examining themes such as: securitization of religious symbols retreat from multiculturalism rise of exclusivist ethno-religious identities post- 9/11 state religion, colonization and the ‘racialization’ of migration Highlighting that religion can be a source of both human security and insecurity in a globalizing world, Shani offers a ‘critical’ human security paradigm that seeks to de-secularize the individual by recognizing the culturally contested and embedded nature of human identities. The work argues that religion serves an important role in re-embedding individuals deracinated from their communities by neo-liberal globalization and will be of interest to students of International Relations, Security Studies and Religion and Politics. Cover Title Copyright Dedication CONTENTS Preface and acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Post-secular Human Security Structure of the book PART I Reconceptualizing human security in a post-secular age 1 Globalization and identity after the financial crisis The globalization debate: historical and intellectual development Globalization, the nation-state and identity: major claims and developments Main criticisms Contemporary developments: digital diasporas, Occupy and the Arab Spring Conclusion 2 Provincializing post-secularism Discourse ethics The post-secular Translation or assimilation? Typologies of the secular The public sphere as a secularized space Conclusion 3 Reconceptualizing security: towards a Critical Human Security paradigm The ‘Mortal God’: the national security doctrine ‘Putting a hook in the nose of the Leviathan’: from national security to Human Security Human security: critical perspectives Critical Human Security: emancipation as desecuritization Securitizing ‘bare life’: neo-liberal governmentality and human in/security after the financial crisis Conclusion 4 Desecularizing Human Security Beyond ‘bare life’? Potentiality, empowerment and messianic immanence Desecularizing universality: human security as caritas Decolonizing human security Towards a new global ethic? Conclusion PART II Sites of human insecurity 5 Emancipating zoe: securitization of the veil in France The end of multiculturalism? Migration and human in/security post-9/11 L’affaire du foulard: the French headscarf ban The hijab as a Human Security issue: protecting and emancipating the veiled woman Disembodying the racialized religious subject Conclusion 6 Sarva Dharma Sambhava: religion and human in/security in South Asia ‘Thick’ and ‘thin’: the colonial construction of ‘religion’ Spectres of Partition: communal violence in post-colonial South Asia The ‘War on Terror’ and human insecurity in South Asia Conclusion 7 Tabunka kyōsei? Ethno-nationalism and human insecurity in Japan A genealogy of Japanese ethno-religious nationalism The nihonjinron: the post-war secularization of Japanese ethno-nationalism ‘Internal others’: human insecurity in multi-ethnic Japan Ganbarō Nippon: human insecurity and national identity after 3/11 Conclusion Conclusion: to be human is not to be resilient Index