Experiencing globalization: religion in contemporary contexts
Today, in an age of globalization, religion represents a potent force in the lives of billions of people worldwide. Yet when social theorists examine the impact of globalization on contemporary religious movements, they tend to focus on issues such as Islamic fundamentalism and threats to US or glob...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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London
Anthem Press
2013
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| In: | Year: 2013 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Experiencing globalization] (2015) (Richardson, James T., 1943 -)
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| Further subjects: | B
Asia ; Religion ; Congresses
B Globalization Religious aspects Congresses B Globalization ; Religious aspects ; Congresses B Asia Religion Congresses |
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| Parallel Edition: | Print version: 9780857285591 |
| Summary: | Today, in an age of globalization, religion represents a potent force in the lives of billions of people worldwide. Yet when social theorists examine the impact of globalization on contemporary religious movements, they tend to focus on issues such as Islamic fundamentalism and threats to US or global security. This collection of essays takes a different approach, analyzing with special reference to Asia religion through lived experience. The key issues covered in the volume include: how religious impulses contribute to globalization; how religious groups and organizations repackage traditional beliefs for transcultural appeal; how religious adherents cope with external threats to identity; how new technologies are reshaping the nature of religious beliefs and images; and how local and global religious influences blend and/or clash. Far from religion being a subject of peripheral concern to globalization, the contributors demonstrate that from the most basic level of our interactions with the natural environment to the socio-political behavior of the great religions and even to the profusion of folk and pop culture phenomena the influence of religion upon globalization, and vice versa, is apparent at all levels Adam Smith and the Neo-Calvinist foundations of globalization / Christian Etzrodt -- Daniel Quinn on religion : saving the world through anti-globalism / Bei Dawei -- Globalized religion : the Vedic sacrifice (Yajña) in transcultural public spheres / Silke Bechler -- Mary, Athena and Guanyin : what the church, the Demos and the Sangha can teach us about religious pluralism and doctrinal conformity to socio-cultural standards / Evenglos Voulgarakis -- The globalization of the new spirituality and its expression in Japan : the case of Mt. Ikoma / Girardo Rodriguez Plasencia -- Globalization and religious resurgence : a comparative study of Bahrain and Poland / Magdalena Karolak and Nikodem Karolak -- Religion in the media age : a case study of Da Ai Dramas from the Tzu Chi Organization / Pei-Ru Liao -- "Techno Dancing Gods" : comicized deity images as expressions of Taiwanese cultural identity / Thzeng Chi Hsiun and Tsai Chin Chia -- Rituals of identity in Alid belief : Siraya religion in Taiwan since 1945 / Tiaukhai Uunn |
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| ISBN: | 0857285769 |