For the majority of cultures around the world, religion permeates
and informs everyday rituals of survival and hope. But religion
also has served as the foundation for national differences, racial
conflicts, class exploitation, and gender discrimination. Indeed,
religious spirituality, having been transformed by contemporary
economic and political events, remains both empowering and
controversial. "Religions/Globalizations" examines the extent to
which globalization and religion are inseparable terms, bound up
with each other in a number of critical and mutually revealing
ways.
As the contributors to this work suggest, a crucial component of
globalization--the breakdown of familiar boundaries and power
balances--may open a space in which religion can be deployed to
help refabricate new communities. Examples of such deployments can
be found in the workings of liberation theology in Latin America.
In other cases, however, the operations of globalization have
provided a space for strident religious nationalism and identity
disputes to flourish. Is there in fact a dialectical tension
between religion and globalization, a codependence and
codeterminism? While religion can be seen as a globalizing force,
it has also been transformed and even victimized by globalization.
A provocative assessment of a contemporary phenomenon with both
cultural and political dimensions, " Religions/Globalizations" will
interest not only scholars in religious studies but also those
studying Latin America, the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa.
"Contributors." David Batstone, Berit Bretthauer, Enrique
Dussel, Dwight N. Hopkins, Mark Juergensmeyer, Lois Ann Lorentzen,
Eduardo Mendieta, Vijaya Rettakudi Nagarajan, Kathryn Poethig,
Lamin Sanneh, Linda E. Thomas
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