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New religions and globalization : empirical, theoretical and methodological perspectives / edited by Armin Geertz & Margit Warburg, assisted by Dorthe Refslund Christensen.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Globalization--Religious aspects--Congresses.
- Globalization.
- Cults--Congresses.
- Cults.
- Sects--Congresses.
- Sects.
- Globalization--Religious aspects.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 277 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Aarhus, Denmark : Aarhus University Press ; Lancaster : Gazelle [distributor], [2008]
- Summary:
- Globalization is a predominant theme in contemporary educational and political circles. Research on globalization has become a political priority because the world has become a 'single place' where local events may have worldwide political, economic and military consequences. Oftentimes, however, cultural and religious consequences are ignored - although recent waves of violence seem to be religiously fuelled.
- New Religions and Globalization argues that studying new religions in a globalization perspective offers theoretical and methodological advantages for the general study of religion and the general study of globalization. Religions are often cosmopolitan and universal in their overall message, yet they may also be utterly immersed in local interactions. Whether approached as a reflection of world economy and power dynamics, new possibilities of communication and cultural exchange in the light of mass media and technology, or increased cultural plurality in the wake of migration, the concept of globalization challenges the academic study of religion to renew its theoretical and methodological reflection.
- Contents:
- Religious interaction in a global context / James A. Beckford
- Religion and globalisation, or globalisation and religion? / Margit Warburg
- Purity and mixture
- religious plurality and the domestication of alterity / Olav Hammer
- Globalization, Bourdieu and new religions / Lene van der Au Kühle
- Organizational transformation in global religions : rethinking the relationship between organization, culture, and market / James V. Spickard
- Orbis terrarum Romanorum est : globalization processes in the Roman Empire / Ingvild Sælid Gilhus
- Early Christianity as a global religion / Ulrich Berner
- Systemic struggle between North American Indians and New Age / Armin W. Geertz
- Mapping globalization with the lens of religion : African migrant churches in Germany / Afe Adogame
- Archangel Gabriel online : the Salamullah movement in Indonesia and globalisation / Frida Mebius Önnerfors
- Managing deterritorialisation, sustaining belief : the Bochasanwasi Shree Akshar Purushottam Swaninarayan Sanstha as ethnographic case study and theoretical foil / Hanna H. Kim
- Religious globalisation : a material perspective : assessing the Mormon temple institution in terms of globalisation / Mikael Rothstein.
- Notes:
- Papers presented at the concluding conference of the Research Network on New Religions (RENNER), Aarhus, Denmark, September 23-26, 2002.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9788779342941
- 8779342949
- OCLC:
- 191754813
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