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Religion, Globalization and Culture BEYER & BEAMAN_f1_i-vii.indd i 9/21/2007 5:26:39 PM International Studies in Religion and Society VOLUME 6 BEYER & BEAMAN_f1_i-vii.indd ii 9/21/2007 5:26:40 PM Religion, Globalization and Culture Edited by Peter Beyer and Lori Beaman LEIDEN • BOSTON 2007 BEYER & BEAMAN_f1_i-vii.indd iii 9/21/2007 5:26:40 PM This book is printed on acid-free paper. A C.I.P. record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISSN 1573-4293 ISBN 978 90 04 15407 0 Copyright 2007 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. printed in the netherlands BEYER & BEAMAN_f1_i-vii.indd iv 9/21/2007 5:26:40 PM CONTENTS Introduction ................................................................................ 1 Peter Beyer & Lori Beaman PART ONE THEORETICAL AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES Global Millennialism: A Postmortem on Secularization ........... 9 Roland Robertson The Cultural and Religious Character of World Society ......... 35 George M. Thomas Sacred Place and Sacred Power: Conceptual Boundaries and the Marginalization of Religious Practices ..................... 57 Meredith McGuire Globalization, Migration and the Two Types of Religious Boundary: A European Perspective ....................................... 79 Margit Warburg Rethinking Secularization: A Global Comparative Perspective ..... 101 José Casanova Religion as Identity and Contestation ........................................ 121 John H. Simpson PART TWO RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS AND GLOBALIZATION Globalization, Religion and Empire in Asia .............................. 145 Bryan S. Turner Globalization and the Institutional Modeling of Religions ...... 167 Peter Beyer BEYER & BEAMAN_f1_i-vii.indd v 9/21/2007 5:26:40 PM vi contents Religious Resurgence, Con(cid:2) ict and the Transformation of Boundaries .............................................................................. 187 Gary D. Bouma Religious Organizations .............................................................. 203 John Boli & David V. Brewington ‘Religion’ in Global Culture: New Directions in an Increasingly Self-Conscious World .............................................................. 233 James V. Spickard Globalization and New Religious Movements ........................... 253 Elisabeth Arweck Religion and Phases of Globalization ........................................ 281 George Van Pelt Campbell PART THREE KEY ISSUES IN THE RELATION OF RELIGION, GLOBALIZATION AND CULTURE Religion and Ecology in the Context of Globalization ............ 305 Laurel Kearns Religious Opposition to Globalization .............................................. 335 William A. Stahl Religion and Exclusion/Marginalization: Globalized Pentecostalism among Hispanics in Newark, N.J. ................. 355 Otto Maduro Religion and Global Flows ......................................................... 375 Michael Wilkinson Religion and the State: The Letter of the Law and the Negotiation of Boundaries ..................................................... 391 Lori Beaman Religion, Law, and Human Rights ............................................ 407 James T. Richardson BEYER & BEAMAN_f1_i-vii.indd vi 9/21/2007 5:26:40 PM contents vii PART FOUR REGIONAL PARTICULARIZATIONS Religious Pluralism in a Local and Global Perspective: Images of the Prophet Mohammed Seen in a Danish and a Global Context ............................................................. 431 Ole Riis Globalization and Religion: The Cases of Japan and Korea ... 453 Nobutaka Inoue The Global Migration of Su(cid:3) Islam to South Asia and Beyond .... 473 Rubina Ramji Hinduism, Gurus, and Globalization ......................................... 485 Shandip Saha Globalization and the Con(cid:2) ict of Values in Middle Eastern Societies ..................................................................... 503 Enzo Pace Sub-Saharan Africa .................................................................... 527 Afe Adogame Religions in Contemporary Europe in the Context of Globalization ...................................................................... 549 Vasilios Makrides Latin America: The “Other Christendom”, Pluralism and Globalization ................................................................... 571 Paul Freston Index ........................................................................................... 595 BEYER & BEAMAN_f1_i-vii.indd vii 9/21/2007 5:26:40 PM BEYER & BEAMAN_f3_6-34.indd 6 9/19/2007 5:15:46 PM INTRODUCTION Peter Beyer & Lori Beaman Globalization and Religion In the late 1980s, globalization was still not a very common word in any language. Its use was more or less restricted to relatively special- ized debates in the world of business and in certain corners of the (Western) social sciences. Since then, the term has reached the status of a worldwide buzzword, a kind of value-laden mantra by which a wide variety of people in various walks of life and in most regions of the globe mean a great many different, and sometimes contradictory, things. We have become accustomed to hearing about the ‘age of globalization’ as a way to describe our current era. Globalization, it almost seems, is about everything, and everything has something to do with globalization. Given this proliferation of the concept, it is perhaps surprising that religion has been comparatively neglected in the many debates and in the by now unmanageably vast literature on the topic; at least in the sense that religion does not very often seem to be about globalization nor globalization about religion. To be sure, people who speak from a religious perspective and with religious motivation are well represented in the massed choirs that sing about globalization, but for the most part their voices address the effects of globalization and how religion should respond to globalization. Religion, it seems, is somehow ‘outside’ looking at globalization as problem or potential. There are, of course, exceptions to this pattern, and many of the authors contributing to this volume are among those who have written explicitly about how religion is an integral aspect of what globalization is all about. It may also be that the literature that does so is now increasing signi(cid:2) cantly. Indeed, this volume may be one symptom of that changing situation. Nonetheless, during the roughly two decades that globalization has risen to its currently iconic status, religion as irrelevant or as outsider to whatever globalization might mean has been the prevailing orienta- tion, with one exception: ‘fundamentalism’. Although this short introduction cannot be the place to provide a detailed justi(cid:2) cation, it is entirely arguable that the rise of globalization BEYER & BEAMAN_f2_1-5.indd 1 9/19/2007 5:15:32 PM

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