E-Books →Religion, Identity and Human Security

- 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.