Table of Contents
The World Christianity and Public Religion Series Raimundo C. Barreto, Series Editor ix
Acknowledgments xv
Contributors xvii
Introduction Richard Fox Young 1
I Religious Freedom, Intolerance, and Resurgent Nationalism
1 Counteracting Resurgent Buddhist Nationalism and Fostering Interreligious Collaboration in Contemporary Burma Pum Za Mang 13
2 Emerging Cooperation among Minorities in Defense of Indian Secularism since the Adoption of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) under the BJP David Emmanuel Singh 37
3 Religious Intolerance in Brazil: The Case of the Girl and the Stone Babalawô Carlos Alberto Ivanir dos Santos 57
4 The Power of Rewriting History: Literature, Race, and Religion in Contemporary Brazil Felipe Fanuel Xavier Rodrigues 69
II Gender, Ecology, and Ethnographic Imagination
5 From the Amazon toward Women's Bodies: The Influence of Conservative Religious Discourse in the Dismantling of Brazilian Social Policies Elisa Rodrigues 89
6 From the Ruins of the End of the World: Necropolitics, Religion, and the Ecological Crisis in Brazil Frederico Pieper 105
7 Between Teas and Prayers: Disobedient Narratives of Two Amazonian Root Herbalists in Sao Paulo Sandra Duarte de Souza 121
III Peace and Reconciliation Initiatives
8 Resisting the Lord's Resistance Army: How Was Interfaith Peace Activism Possible in Northern Uganda? David A. Hoekema 139
9 "Jos Is the Epicenter of Christianity": Ancestral Land Rights and the Despatializing of Identity in Jos North, Nigeria Amidu Elabo 159
10 "Bad Omen!" Naked Agency and Body Politics in Public Discourse and Contemporary World Christianity Ruth Vida Amwe 183
IV North-South/South-North and South-South Initiatives in Grassroots and Participatory Ecumenism
11 Embodying Transnational Christian-Muslim Solidarities in India and Canada Sunder John Boopalan 203
12 "No One Can Serve Christ and Caste": Indian Ecumenical Initiatives to Combat Caste Peniel Jesudason Rufus Rajkumar 213
13 Shifting Theological Boundaries: The Encounter between Western Christianity and African Cultures and Religions in Southern Africa Henry Mbaya 231
14 A New Pentecost? The Story of Peoples in the History of the Global Christian Forum and Its Contribution to World Christianity Casely Baiden Essamuah 249
Index 269