Lived Religion and the Politics of (In)Tolerance

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 pressing societal issues from a lived religion perspective. Many contemporary societal 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 conflicts 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 different approaches and foci, this series aims to contribute to this field 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. The series has a global scope and is open to studies from all contexts and religious backgrounds. This interdisciplinary series will showcase scholarship from sociology of religion and cultural anthropology, religious studies and theology, history and psychology, law and economy. The defining feature is that religion is approached not as a stable system of official positions, traditions, creeds, and structures but as a fluid 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, specifically in the context of dealing with societal challenges. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/15215 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, The Netherlands Amsterdam, The Netherlands Palgrave Studies in Lived Religion and Societal Challenges ISBN 978-3-319-43405-6 ISBN 978-3-319-43406-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-43406-3 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016960953 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. 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Cover image © ZUMA Press, Inc. / Alamy Stock Photo Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland 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 Cross 63 David Tombs The 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 v vi Contents “Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol” Lived Religion, Conflict, 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 Thesnaar The Politics of Intolerance, Lived Religion, and Theological Reflection Around Belfast’s Separation Barriers 215 Jonathan Hatch Fostering Religious Tolerance in Education: The Dutch Perspective 237 Gerdien Bertram-Troost and Siebren Miedema Index 259 Notes on Contributors Júlio Cézar Adam is Associate Professor of Practical Theology 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 Theology 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 Theology at Vrije Universiteit and founding codirector of its Amsterdam Centre for the Study of Lived Religion. His interdisciplinary research interests include the interface of religion 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 Theology from Trinity College Dublin and has 13 years’ experience working in Ireland and Northern Ireland on post-conflict projects sponsored by Corrymeela, the Irish Peace Centres, and numerous other independent, faith-based post-conflict reconciliation initiatives. He divides his time between the USA and Ireland writing, teaching, and working with a local affiliate of the Montana Human Rights Network. vii viii Notes on Contributors 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 specifically, 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 Theology 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: [email protected] Dubravka Valić Nedeljković is Professor at the Department of Media Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. Key subjects: journalism, means of mass communication, critical media discourse analysis, gender studies, media in minority languages, multiculturalism, and reporting diversity. Srdjan Sremac is Lecturer at the Faculty of Theology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and codirector of its Amsterdam Centre for the Study of Lived Religion. His research interests include narrative psychology of religion, lived religion of marginalized groups, religious and sexual nationalism, war-related trauma, and post-conflict reconciliation studies. Sally Sims Stokes is Lecturer, Cultural Heritage Information Management, Department of Library and Information Science, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. She teaches courses on the values, ethics, history, the- ory, and vocabularies of libraries, archives, and museums as discrete and converg- ing cultural entities. She has served as interim head of the University of Maryland (UMD) Art and Architecture Libraries; curator of UMD’s National Trust for Historic Preservation Library Collection; and senior research specialist, the White House Historical Association. She has lived in Greenbelt,

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