Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 547 g
Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 547 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-532341-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Work on culture and globalization tends to focus on dynamics of reaction or resistance. Religion generally figures as a defensive response to economic and cultural globalization, a way to assert local identities against the international. The book will highlight another dimension of religion and globalization -- the reconstitution of religious communities as transnational actors. Over the past two decades, global migration patterns and modern communications technologies have spawned more active transnational religious communities, creating a powerful force in world politics. In the case of Islam, for example, Satellite TV, the Internet, and the post 9/11 international context have reinforced the idea of the umma, a transnational Muslim community. All three Abrahamic faiths have always had global identities anchored in faith in one God and universal truth claims. But globalization is driving them -- and other leading traditions, including Hinduism and Buddhism -- to rethink their world-roles in new ways. Yet the international dimensions of religious pluralism have been virtually ignored by scholars. This new religious pluralism is marked by both interreligious cooperation and conflict. Global religious identities have encouraged interreligious dialogue and greater religious engagement around questions including international development, conflict resolution, transitional justice, and bioethics. At the same time, more intense interreligious competition has contributed to controversy over the meaning and scope of religious freedom -- an international norm increasingly prominent in US foreign policy. The book will explore both these dimensions of the new religious pluralism in world politics from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Among the many distinguished contributors to the volume are Kwame Anthony Appiah, R. Scott Appleby, Robert Drinan, Jean Bethke Elshtain, John Voll, and John Witte. This volume should appeal to scholars and policymakers, as well as being useful for courses in religion and politics and international relations.
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- 1: Introduction--Thomas Banchoff
- Part 1: Challenges of Religious Pluralism in a Global Era
- 2: Causes of Quarrel: What's Special about Religious Disputes?--Kwame Anthony Appiah
- 3: On the Possibility of Religious Pluralism--Pratap Bhanu Mehta
- 4: Toleration, Proselytizing, and the Politics of Recognition--Jean Bethke Elshtain
- 5: The Rights and Limits of Proselytism in the New Religious World Order--John Witte, Jr.
- Part 2: Religious Actors in World Politics
- 6: Building Sustainable Peace: The Roles of Local and Transnational Religious Actors--R. Scott Appleby
- 7: Religious Actors and Transitional Justice--Leslie Vinjamuri and Aaron P. Boesenecker
- 8: Religion and Global Development: Intersecting Paths--Katherine Marshall
- 9: Peaceful Movements in the Muslim World--Thomas Michel, S.J.
- 10: Trans-state Muslim Movements and Militant Extremists in an Era of Soft Power--John O. Voll
- 11: Religious Pluralism and the Politics of a Global Cloning Ban--Thomas Banchoff
- 12: US Foreign Policy and Global Religious Pluralism--Elizabeth H. Prodromou
