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Religions/Globalizations: Theories and Cases
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Description for Religions/Globalizations: Theories and Cases
Paperback. A collection of essays demonstrating the ways diverse religious rituals, symbols, ethics and ideologies perform as primary planks in the construction of the public realm, with particular focus on peripheral nations and politicised spiritualities of resistance. Editor(s): Hopkins, Dwight N.; Lorentzen, Lois; Mendieta, Eduardo; Batstone, David. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAC; JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 399.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822327950
SKU
V9780822327950
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About Hopkins
Dwight N. Hopkins is Associate Professor of Theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Lois Ann Lorentzen is Professor of Social Ethics in the department of theology and religious studies at the University of San Francisco. Eduardo Mendieta is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. David Batstone is ... Read more
Reviews for Religions/Globalizations: Theories and Cases
“By bringing religions in confrontation with globalization, this volume offers a healthy corrective to the received view that one religion, Christianity, shall be the measuring stick to evaluate all other religions and to the received view that links a given religion to a given race. Religions/Globalizations makes a signal contribution to understanding the changing faces of religions in an era ... Read more