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This book illuminates the central role played by international
nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) in the emergence and
development of a comprehensive world polity. The contributors argue
that the enormous proliferation of INGOs since 1875--including
international environmental organizations, human rights groups,
bodies formed to regulate technical standards, and economic
development organizations, among others--both reflects and
contributes to the spread of global institutions and cultural
principles based on models of rationality, individualism, progress,
and universalism. The contributors contrast this world-polity
perspective to other approaches to understanding globalization,
including realist and neo-realist analyses in the field of
international relations, and world-system theory and interstate
competition theory in sociology.
The history of Christianity in America has been marked by recurring
periods of religious revivals or awakenings. In this book, George
M. Thomas addresses the economic and political context of
evangelical revivalism and its historical linkages with economic
expansion and Republicanism in the nineteenth century. Thomas
argues that large-scale change results in social movements that
articulate new organizations and definitions of individual,
society, authority, and cosmos. Drawing on religious newspapers,
party policies and agendas, and quantitative analyses of voting
patterns and census data, he claims that revivalism in this period
framed the rules and identities of the expanding market economy and
the national policy.
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