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Introduction : religiosities toward the future ... in pursuit of the new millennium / Bruce Kapferer, Kari Telle, and Annelin Eriksen -- The politics of conviction : faith on the neo-liberal frontier / Jean Comaroff -- Strategic secularism : Bible advocacy in England / Matthew Engelke -- Pentecostal networks and the spirit of globalization : on the special productivity of ritual forms / Joel Robbins -- Healing the nation : in search of unity through the Holy Spirit in Vanuatu / Annelin Eriksen -- What happened to cargo cults? Material religions in Melanesia and the west / Ton Otto -- Gold for a golden age : sacred money and Islam freedom in a global Sufi order / Nils Bubandt -- Sri Lankan civil society and its fanatics / Rohan Bastin -- Dharma power : searching for security in post-new order Indonesia / Kari Telle -- An ancient case of interrogation and torture / Bruce Lincoln -- The terrorist as humanitarian / Faisal Devji -- Reflections on the rise of legal theology : law and religion in the twenty-first century / John L. Comaroff.

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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. For a fuller understanding of what this means for society in the context of globalization, it is necessary to rethink the relationship between the religious and the secular; the contributors - all leading scholars in anthropology - do just that, some even arguing that secularization itself now takes a religious form. Combining theoretical reflection with vivid ethnographic explorations,

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