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World religions and multiculturalism [electronic resource] : a dialectic relation / edited by Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Yitzhak Sternberg.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: International comparative social studies ; v. 23.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 408 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004189188
  • 9004189181
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: World religions and multiculturalism.DDC classification:
  • 306.6 22
LOC classification:
  • BL85 .W73 2010eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-392) and index.

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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.

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.

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