Description
Book SynopsisA 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.
Trade Review“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 in which the old principles of colonial domination are being redrawn under the new forms of global coloniality.”—Walter Mignolo, Duke University
“This collection places the long-standing issue of the relation between religion and politics in the context of ‘post-Cold War’ developments and the rise of neoliberal capitalist globalization. The essays explore how religion reinforces stasis and exploitation on the one hand, and motivates resistance and change on the other.”—Mark Lewis Taylor, Princeton Theological Seminary
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
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
