The last decade has seen an unexpected return of the religious, and with it the creation of new kinds of social forms alongside new fusions of political and religious realms that high modernity kept distinct.

Introduction: Religiosities toward a Future—in Pursuit of the New Millennium Bruce Kapferer, Annelin Eriksen, and Kari Telle Chapter 1. The Politics of Conviction: Faith on the Neo-liberal Frontier Jean Comaroff Chapter 2. Strategic Secularism: Bible Advocacy in England Matthew Engelke Chapter 3. Pentecostal Networks and the Spirit of Globalization: On the Social Productivity of Ritual Forms Joel Robbins Chapter 4.  Healing the Nation: In Search of Unity through the Holy Spirit in Vanuatu Annelin Eriksen Chapter 5. What Happened to Cargo Cults? Material Religions in Melanesia and the West Ton Otto Chapter 6. Gold for a Golden Age: Sacred Money and Islamic Freedom in a Global Sufi Order Nils Bubandt Chapter 7. Sri Lankan Civil Society and Its Fanatics Rohan Bastin Chapter 8. Dharma Power: Searching for Security in Post–New Order Indonesia Kari Telle Chapter 9. An Ancient Case of Interrogation and Torture Bruce Lincoln Chapter 10. The Terrorist as Humanitarian Faisal Devji Chapter 11. Reflections on the Rise of Legal Theology: Law and Religion in the Twenty-First Century John L. Comaroff

These papers offer us many challenges as we come to consider the sacred and the secular, church and state, and associated moral concerns from new perspectives.”  ·  Anthropological Notebooks “Pity the reviewer of a collection of eleven articles as stimulating but thematically diverse as this.”  ·  JRAI “… a wide-ranging collection of studies taking the pulse of modern religion and society. As has become apparent, it is no longer possible to hold religion and politics apart analytically, nor to rest comfortably in the assumptions of secularization…As the state changes (or wanes), other social forces will blend with it or replace it, and the authors here have done a valuable service in demonstrating just a few ways in which this is happening and will continue to happen.”  ·  Anthropology Review Database