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 World Religions and Multiculturalism: A Dialectic Relation

Contents

• • Preliminary Material (i-xvi)   (110K)
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    • Contents
    • Preface
    • List Of Contributors
    • Tables And Figure
  • Introduction A Dialectic Relation (1-18) by Eliezer Ben-Rafael   (81K)
  • The New Religious Constellations In The Frameworks Of Contemporary Globalization And Civilizational Transformation (19-40) by Shmuel N. Eisenstadt   (86K)
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    • Introduction
    • The Crystallization Of New Patterns Of Religiosity And Religious Constellations
    • The Crystallization Of New Civilizational Constellations
    • Patterns Of Social Relations And Institutional Formations
    • Cultural Transformations
    • Transformations Of National And International Political Arenas
    • International Formations
    • New Patterns Of Globalization
    • Intercivilizational Settings — Transformation Of Movements And Ideologies Of Protest
  • Religious America, Secular Europe: Framing The Debate (41-62) by Grace Davie   (94K)
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    • Did Religion Make A Difference In The 2008 Presidential Election?
    • To What Extent Did Europeans Grasp What Was Happening?
    • Grasping The Implications For Social Science
  • Globalization, Nationalism And Religion: A Multiple Modernities Perspective On Imperial And Peripheral Nations In Post-Communist Europe (63-82) by Willfried Spohn   (84K)
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    • Nationalism, Religion And Secularism—A Multiple Modernities Perspective
    • Empire-Contracting Nationalism, Religion And Secularization
    • Peripheral Nationalism, Religion And Secularization
    • Globalization, Nationalism And Religion
  • Dynamics Of Ultramodern Religiosity And New Forms Of Religious Spatiality (83-92) by Danièle Hervieu-Léger   (61K)
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    • How To Make Sense Of This Tension?
    • Individualization And New Calls
  • Pentecostalism: A Christian Revival Sweeping The Developing World (93-118) by David Martin   (102K)
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    • What Is Pentecostalism?
    • How Did Pentecostalism Originate?
    • Analytic Overview: Is It Sectarian? Is It Fundamentalist?
    • Back To Luther
    • Characteristics And Varieties Of Pentecostal Spirituality
    • Four Examples: Venezuela, Ghana, Nigeria, South India
    • Mutations Of Lutheran Themes
    • The Priesthood Of All Believers—And The Uses Of Authority
    • Interiority, Purification, The Rejection Of Idols
    • Sin, Frustration,—And Optimistic Anticipation
    • Mission: From Western Senders To Indigenous Carriers And Reverse Mission
    • Eschatology, The Bondage Of The Will, And Empowerment
    • Scripture Alone? Spirit Alone?
    • Transnationalism—And The Hope Of Earthly Zion?
    • A Master Road To Modernity?
  • Trans-National Pentecostalism And Secular Modernity (119-142) by Bernice Martin   (95K)
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    • Introduction
    • Charles Taylor: The “Modern Identity”, The “Immanent Frame” And Pentecostal Modernity
    • The “Protestant Ethic” And The Pentecostal Economic Ethic
    • The Pentecostal Gender Paradox And Secular Feminism
    • Pentecostal Antinomies And Secular Modernity
  • Transnational Islam In A Post-Westphalian World: Connectedness Vs. Sovereignty (143-158) by Armando Salvatore   (73K)
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    • Introduction
    • The Islamic Civilizational Sphere Of Connectedness: Anything Wrong With It?
    • From Leviathan Through Demos To Apocalypse: How To Rehabilitate European Politics?
    • A Transnational Islamic Public?
    • Conclusion
  • Authoritarian Persistence And Barriers To Democracy In The Muslim Middle East: Beyond Cultural Essentialism (159-192) by Mehdi P. Amineh   (126K)
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    • Introduction
    • European Expansion And Muslim Responses
    • Authoritarian Regimes And Development In The Muslim Middle East
    • Variations Of Islam As Political Ideology
    • Authoritarian Persistence In The Muslim Middle East
    • Conclusion
  • From Medina To The Ummah: Muslim Globalization In Historical And Contemporary Perspective (193-216) by Peter Mandaville   (98K)
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    • Globalization Then
    • Contemporary Muslim Transnationalism
    • Globalization Now
    • The New Terrain Of European Islam
    • Defining A European Islam For The 21st Century
    • Conclusion
  • Establishment Of Buddhist Sacred Space In Contemporary India: The Ambedkarite Buddhism, Dalit Civil Religion And The Struggle Against Social Exclusion (217-236) by Knut A. Jacobsen   (84K)
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    • Introduction
    • Ambedkarite Buddhism As Modern Buddhism
    • Buddhism As The Untouchables’ Religion
    • Buddhism As A Critique Of Hinduism
    • Buddhism As A Political Vision
    • From Exclusion To Inclusion: Processions, Statues And Monuments
    • Conclusion
  • Hindu Traditions In Diaspora: Shifting Spaces And Places (237-256) by Martin Baumann   (96K)
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    • Maintaining And Adapting: Religions In Diaspora
    • Tamil Hindus From Sri Lanka In Germany And Switzerland
    • Hindu Ritual: Spaces And Places
    • The Diaspora Temple As Multifunctional Site
    • Shifting Of Ritual Spaces And Places
    • Religious Dimensions: Shift Of Importance
  • Religions In India And China Today (257-276) by Peter Van Der Veer   (85K)
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    • Introduction
    • The State And National Religion
    • Religious Movements, National And Transnational
    • Conclusion
  • One People? Contemporary Jewish Identities (277-314) by Eliezer Ben-Rafael   (137K)
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    • Identity And Flow
    • The Caste Model As Codifier
    • The Ultra-Orthodox Flow
    • The Ethnocultural Flow
    • Religious Ethnocultural Versions
    • Non-Religious Ethnocultural Formulations
    • The National Flow
    • Tensions And ‘Family Resemblance’
  • Judaism And Global Religious Trends: Some Contemporary Developments (315-350) by Shlomo Fischer   (123K)
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    • The Centrality Of Personal Experience
    • Belonging Without Believing Or Behaving
    • Fundamentalist Radicalization Among Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox: The Abstraction Of Religion From Life
    • Conclusion
  • Religion, Territory And Multiculturalism (351-366) by Yitzhak Sternberg   (72K)
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    • Introduction
    • The Cases Compared
    • Conclusion
  • Bibliography (367-392)   (134K)
  • Index (393-408)   (64K)