Religions/Globalizations: Theories and Cases
ISBN-13:
9780822327851
ISBN-10:
0822327856
Edition:
Illustrated
Author:
Dwight N. Hopkins, David Batstone, Eduardo Mendieta, Lois Ann Lorentzen
Publication date:
2001
Publisher:
Duke University Press Books
Format:
Hardcover
272 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780822327851
ISBN-10:
0822327856
Edition:
Illustrated
Author:
Dwight N. Hopkins, David Batstone, Eduardo Mendieta, Lois Ann Lorentzen
Publication date:
2001
Publisher:
Duke University Press Books
Format:
Hardcover
272 pages
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Religions/Globalizations: Theories and Cases (ISBN-13: 9780822327851 and ISBN-10: 0822327856), written by authors
Dwight N. Hopkins, David Batstone, Eduardo Mendieta, Lois Ann Lorentzen, was published by Duke University Press Books in 2001.
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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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