 |
| |
|
|
|
| 
|
|
Religions/Globalizations
Theories and Cases
 |
Browse |
 |
|
|
Edited by Dwight N. Hopkins, Lois Ann Lorentzen, Eduardo Mendieta and David Batstone
Duke University Press
Due/Published
November 2001, 248 pages,
paper
ISBN
0822327953
A collection of essays demonstrating the ways in which 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 politicized spiritualities of resistance. 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. 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 |
|
| |
Review
How are globalization and religion intertwined? How does globalization transform the conditions for the existence, maintenance, and furtherance of religion? Does globalization resist or inspire the rise of religious nationalism? These are just some of the questions explored by the contributors to this much-needed collection. The contributors point to both the detrimental and the positive effects of globalization in terms of religion: On the one hand, it reinforces certain colonial assumptions about the supremacy of the West and how it impinges upon local traditions and religions. This, in turn, often leads to the spread of religious nationalism and strife. On the other hand, religion has also resisted the force of globalization, strengthening and refabricating local communities. The contributors balance theoretical discussions with case studies, revealing the ways religion and spirituality are changing in the globalized world. Essays include: |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
 |
