Galina Lindquist (1955–2008) was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University. She received her Ph.D. in 1998, and did fieldwork among neo-shamans in Sweden, among alternative healing practitioners and patients in Moscow, and among shamans and lamas in Tyva, in southern Siberia. She authored Conjuring Hope: Healing and Magic in Contemporary Russia (2006), The Quest for the Authentic Shaman: Multiple Meanings of Shamanism on a Siberian Journey (2006), coedited four volumes, and published numerous articles in professional journals.

• List of FiguresPrefaceDon HandelmanChapter 1. After Understanding: A Memoir of Galina LindquistMichael JacksonChapter 2. Religion, Politics, and Globalization: The Long Past Foregrounding the Short Present - Prologue and IntroductionDon Handelman and Galina LindquistSECTION I: SHAPING RELIGION THROUGH POLITICSChapter 3. Ethnic Identity and Religious Competition: Buddhism and Shamanism in Southern SiberiaGalina LindquistChapter 4. The Global Constitution of Religious Competition: Hindutva and GlobalizationHenrik BerglundSECTION II: OPEN CONFLICTS OF RELIGION AND POLITICSChapter 5. Church Confronts State: The 2004 Manifestasaun in Timor-LesteDavid HicksChapter 6. Religion, Secularism, Secularism, and Politics in Contemporary Spain: The Case of the Imam of FuengirolaEva Evers RosanderSECTION III: THE TIGHT EMBRACE OF RELIGION AND POLITICSChapter 7. Actors of History? Religion, Politics and ‘Reality’ Within the Protestant Right in AmericaSimon ColemanChapter 8. The Ambiguities of Islamism and a Century of Iranian OppositionDavid ThurfjellSECTION IV: OPENING NEW SPACE FOR RELIGIONChapter 9. Amazighite, Arab/Islamic Hegemony, and the Christian Evangelical ChallengeMira AmirasChapter 10. Self-Exploders, Self-Sacrifice, and the Rhizomic Organization of TerrorismDon HandelmanChapter 11. Afterword: Fixation of Belief and the Dilemmas of FallibilityRobert InnisNotes on Contributors

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