ERC Consolidator Grant · 2025
Religious Authority in Extractive Industry Struggles
RAIDS aims to establish that religion is a crucial terrain of authority that contributes to determining (un)equal and (un)just outcomes in extractive industry struggles. Religious authority has been largely overlooked in the scholarship on extraction. I suggest this is because the Eurocentric ‘secularisation thesis’ continues to limit the sociological imagination such that religious authority is only seen as relevant to the past, ‘traditional’ societies, or ‘extremist’ groups, despite extensive evidence of the enduring political importance of religion. Religion is widely recognised as an important aspect of Indigenous relations with land, but the contemporary role of religion in securing…
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