World religions and multiculturalism : a dialectic relation /

World religions and multiculturalism : a dialectic relation /

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Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Description:1 online resource (xiv, 408 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:International comparative social studies, 1568-4474 ; v. 23
International comparative social studies ; v. 23.
Subject:
Religious pluralism.
Multiculturalism -- Religious aspects.
Multiculturalism -- Religious aspects.
Religious pluralism.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11233979
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Other authors / contributors:Ben Rafael, Eliezer.
Sternberg, Yitzak.
ISBN:9789004189188
9004189181
9789004188921
9004188924
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-392) and index.
Print version record.
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.
Other form:Print version: World religions and multiculturalism. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010 9789004188921
Table of 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.

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