Lived Religion and the Politics of (In)Tolerance

264 Pages·2017·4.03 MB·English

by  R. Ruard Ganzevoort, Srdjan Sremac (eds.)

Palgrave Studies in Lived Religion
and Societal Challenges
LIVED RELIGION
AND THE
POLITICS OF
(IN)TOLERANCE
Edited by
R. Ruard Ganzevoort
and Srdjan Sremac
Palgrave Studies in Lived Religion
and Societal Challenges
Series Editors
Nancy Ammerman
Religious Research Association
Galva, Illinois, USA
R. Ruard Ganzevoort
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Srdjan Sremac
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Palgrave Studies in Lived Religion and Societal Challenges publishes mono-
graphs and edited volumes that describe and critically interpret p ressing
societal issues from a lived religion perspective. Many contemporary soci-
etal challenges regard religion, directly or indirectly, and usually religion
contributes to the problem as much as it fosters positive outcomes. Topics
to be addressed would range from conficts and (in-)tolerance to build-
ing inclusive societies; from urban development and policymaking to new
forms of social cohesion; from poverty and injustice to global ecological
challenges of the 21th century. While such issues are studied by several dis-
ciplines, with diferent approaches and foci, this series aims to contribute to
this feld by adding a particular focus on the everyday practices of religious
and spiritual actors. Contexts to be studied include, but are not limited to
faith communities, educational and health care settings, media, and the
public sphereat large. Te series has a global scope and is open to studies
from all contexts and religious backgrounds. Tis interdisciplinary series
will showcase scholarship from sociology of religion and cultural anthro-
pology, religious studies and theology, history and psychology, law and
economy. Te defning feature is that religion is approached not as a stable
system of ofcial positions, traditions, creeds, and structures but as a fuid
andmulti-layered practice of what people actually do, experience, think,
and sharewhen they appropriate religious repertoires and negotiate their
religious performance vis a vis the religious and cultural traditions they
draw upon, specifcally in the context of dealing with societal challenges.
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R. Ruard Ganzevoort • Srdjan Sremac
Editors
Lived Religion and
the Politics of
(In)Tolerance
Editors
R. Ruard Ganzevoort Srdjan Sremac
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Amsterdam, Te Netherlands Amsterdam, Te Netherlands
Palgrave Studies in Lived Religion and Societal Challenges
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Contents
Lived Religion and Lived (In)Tolerance 1
Srdjan Sremac and R. Ruard Ganzevoort
Part I Fostering Intolerance 17
Paradigms of [In]Tolerance? On Sri Lanka’s
Bodu Bala Sena, #prezpollsl2015, and Transformative
Dynamics of Lived Religion 19
Chamindra Weerawardhana
Notes on the Christian Battle to End the “Abortion Holocaust” 41
Katharina von Kellenbach
Lived Religion and the Intolerance of the Cros 63
David Tombs
Te Patriarch and the Pride: Discourse Analysis
of the Online Public Response to the Serbian Orthodox
Church Condemnation of the 2012 Gay Pride Parade 85
Dubravka Valić-Nedeljković, R. Ruard Ganzevoort,
and Srdjan Sremac
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“Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol” Lived Religion, Confict,
and Intolerance in Brazilian Films 111
Júlio Cézar Adam
Part II Fostering Tolerance 133
God, Government, and Greenbelt: Lived Religion
and the Cultural Politics of (In)Tolerance in the Social
Engineering of a Cooperative New Deal Resettlement
Town, 1937–1940 135
Sally Sims Stokes
Uncanny Landscapes of Memory: “Bosnian Pyramids”
and the Contemporary World-Making in Bosnia
and Herzegovina 171
Maja Lovrenović
Reconciliation, Justice, and (In)Tolerance Hijacked
by Religious Apathy: Transforming Reconciliation
20 Years After the TRC in South Africa 193
Christo Tesnaar
Te Politics of Intolerance, Lived Religion, and Teological
Refection Around Belfast’s Separation Barriers 215
Jonathan Hatch
Fostering Religious Tolerance in Education:
Te Dutch Perspective 237
Gerdien Bertram-Troost and Siebren Miedema
Index 259
Notes on Contributors
Júlio Cézar Adam is Associate Professor of Practical Teology and coordinator
of the Post-Graduate Program at Faculdades EST, São Leopoldo/RS, Brazil. His
research interests include liturgy, homiletics, spirituality, social movements and
liberation theology, media, pop culture, and lived religion in Brazil.
Gerdien Bertram-Troost is Assistant Professor in Religious Education in the
Faculty of Teology and Assistant Professor in Educational Foundations in the
Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,
the Netherlands. On behalf of both faculties she holds the Verus-VU-Research
position for world view education. Her current focus is on the role and imple-
mentation of world view education in (future) education.
R.  Ruard  Ganzevoort is Dean and Professor of Practical Teology at Vrije
Universiteit and founding codirector of its Amsterdam Centre for the Study of
Lived Religion. His interdisciplinary research interests include the interface of reli-
gion with narrative identity, trauma, sexuality, politics, and/or popular culture.
Jon Hatch is a theologian, teacher, and human rights worker. He received his
MPhil in Reconciliation Studies and his PhD in Teology from Trinity College
Dublin and has 13 years’ experience working in Ireland and Northern Ireland
on post-confict projects sponsored by Corrymeela, the Irish Peace Centres, and
numerous other independent, faith-based post-confict reconciliation initiatives.
He divides his time between the USA and Ireland writing, teaching, and work-
ing with a local afliate of the Montana Human Rights Network.
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Maja Lovrenović is a PhD candidate at the Social and Cultural Anthropology
Department of the VU University Amsterdam. Her research interests include
history, heritage, memory, narratives, and everyday life. More specifcally, her
work examines how the past is narrated, perceived, and dealt with in the everyday
life in contemporary Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Siebren  Miedema is Professor emeritus in Educational Foundations in the
Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences and Professor in Religious
Education in the Faculty of Teology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the
Netherlands. His current focus is on religious citizenship education, children’s
and young people’s self-responsible self-determination regarding religion or
world view, their encompassing personhood formation, and education for social
sustainability. Email:
Notes on Contributo rs ix
David Tombs is Howard Paterson Chair of Teology and Public Issues, and
Director of the Centre for Teology and Public Issues, at the University of
Otago. He has longstanding interests in the contribution of religious faith to
social justice and political change, and the complex relationship between reli-
gion and violence. Before coming to New Zealand he worked in London and
then Belfast. His current research includes a focus on Christian responses to
torture and gender-based violence.
Katharina von Kellenbach is Professor of Religious Studies, St Mary’s College
of Maryland. Her areas of expertise include Holocaust Studies, Jewish–Christian
relations, feminist theology, and interreligious dialogue. She is the author of
Anti-Judaism in Feminist Religious Writings (1994) and Te Mark of Cain: Guilt
and Denial in the Lives of Nazi Perpetrators (2013). Her current project,
Composting Guilt: An Ecofeminist Critique of Rituals of Purifcation of Past Wrongs,
examines the secular and religious visions of purity and purifcation as justifca-
tions for genocidal atrocities as well as for subsequent campaigns for transitional
justice, cultural transformation, and moral repair.
Chamindra  Weerawardhana is a political analyst, international consultant,
and transgender equality activist, mostly based in Belfast. She has held univer-
sity teaching assignments in France and the UK, and her writing has appeared
in refereed and journalistic outlets in several countries.