Religions/Globalizations (eBook, PDF)

Theories and Cases
Redaktion: Dwight N. Hopkins, Hopkins

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822380405
• Artikelnr.: 54921647

Autorenporträt

Dwight N. Hopkins, Lois Ann Lorentzen, Eduardo Mendieta, and David Batstone, eds.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One / Theoretical Frameworks
The Religion of Globalization / Dwight N. Hopkins
The Sociohistorical Meaning of Liberation Theology (Reflections about Its
Origin and World Context) / Enrique Dussel
Society’s Religion: The Rise of Social Theory, Globalization, and the
Invention of Religion / Eduardo Mendieta
The Global Rise of Religious Nationalism / Mark Juergensmeyer
Who Is an Indian? Religion, Globalization, and Chiapas / Lois Ann Lorentzen
Part Two / Case Studies
The African Transformation of Christianity: Comparative Reflections on
Ethnicity and Religious Mobilization in Africa / Lamin Sanneh
Macroeconomy, Apartheid, & Rituals of Healing in an African Indigenous
Church / Linda E. Thomas
(In)Corporating Threshold Art: Kolam Competitions, Patronage, and Colage /
Vijaya Rettakudi Nagarajan
Visa Trouble: Cambodian American Christians and Their Defense of Multiple
Citizenship / Kathryn Poethig
Televangelism: Local and Global Dimensions / Berit Bretthauer
Dancing to a Different Beat: Emerging Spiritualities in the Network Society
/ David Batstone
Index