Religions/Globalizations - Theories and Cases (Paperback)

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

General

Imprint:	Duke University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2001
First published:	October 2001
Editors:	Dwight N. Hopkins • Lois Ann Lorentzen • Eduardo Mendieta • David Batstone
Dimensions:	235 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-0-8223-2795-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > Comparative religion Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > Comparative religion
LSN:	0-8223-2795-3
Barcode:	9780822327950

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