ISBN:
9004188924
,
9004189181
,
9789004188921
,
9789004189188
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 408 pages)
Series Statement:
International comparative social studies v. 23
DDC:
306.6
Keywords:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion
;
Multiculturalism / Religious aspects
;
Religious pluralism
;
Religion
;
Religious pluralism
;
Multiculturalism Religious aspects
;
Weltreligion
;
Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
;
Globalisierung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Weltreligion
;
Globalisierung
;
Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-392) and index
,
This book is about new forms of religious activities emerging in the context of their dialectic relations with contemporary multicultural realities. World religions are effectively a major agent of the multiculturalization of contemporary societies. However, multiculturalism pushes them not only toward change but also toward new conflicts
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pt. 1. New perspectives. The new religious constellations in the frameworks of contemporary globalization and civilizational transformation / Shmuel N. Eisenstadt -- Religious America, secular Europe : framing the debate / Grace Davie -- Globalization, nationalism and religion : a multiple modernities perpsective on imperial and peripheral nations in post-Communist Europe / Willfried Spohn -- pt. 2. Christian faiths. Dynamics of ultramodern religiosity and new forms of religious spatiality / Danièle Hervieu-Lèger -- Pentecostalism : a Christian revival sweeping the developing world / David Martin -- Trans-national Pentecostalism and secular modernity / Bernice Martin -- pt. 3. Islam. Transnational Islam in a post-Westphalian world : connectedness vs. sovereignty / Armando Salvatore -- Autoritarian persistence and barriers to democracy in the Muslim Middle East : beyond cultural essentialism / Mehdi P. Amineh -- From Medina to the Ummah : Muslim globalization in historical and contemporary perspective / Peter Mandaville -- pt. 4. Asian religions. Establishment of Buddhist sacred space in contemporary India : the Ambedkarite Buddhism, Dalit civil religion and the struggle against social exclusion / Knut A. Jacobsen -- Hindu traditions in diaspora : shifting spaces and places / Martin Baumann -- Religions in India and China today / Peter van der Veer -- pt. 5. Judaism. One people? : contemporary Jewish identities / Eliezer Ben-Rafael -- Judaism and global religious trends : some contemporary developments / Shlomo Fischer -- pt. 6. The comparative dimension. Religion, territory and multiculturalism / Yitzhak Sternberg
