Preface
List of Contributors
Tables and Figure
Introduction: A Dialectic Relation, Eliezer Ben-Rafael
PART ONE: NEW PERSPECTIVES
1. The New Religious Constellations in the Frameworks of
Contemporary Globalization and Civilizational Transformation,
Shmuel N. Eisenstadt
2. Chapter Two Religious America, Secular Europe: Framing the
Debate, Grace Davie
3. Globalization, Nationalism and Religion: A Multiple Modernities
Perspective on Imperial and Peripheral Nations in Post-Communist
Europe, Willfried Spohn
PART TWO: CHRISTIAN FAITHS
4. Dynamics of Ultramodern Religiosity and New Forms of Religious
Spatiality, Danièle Hervieu-Léger
5. Pentecostalism: A Christian Revival Sweeping the Developing
World, David Martin
6. Trans-national Pentecostalism and Secular Modernity, Bernice
Martin
PART THREE: ISLAM
7. Transnational Islam in a Post-Westphalian World: Connectedness
vs. Sovereignty?, Armando Salvatore
8. Autoritarian Persistence and Barriers to Democracy in the Muslim
Middle East: Beyond Cultural Essentialism, Mehdi P. Amineh
9. From Medina to the Ummah: Muslim Globalization in Historical and
Contemporary Perspective, Peter Mandaville
PART FOUR: ASIAN RELGIONS
10. Establishment of Buddhist Sacred Space in Contemporary India:
The Ambedkarite Buddhism, Dalit Civil Religion and the Struggle
Against Social Exclusion, Knut A. Jacobsenv
11. Hindu Traditions in Diaspora: Shifting Spaces and Places,
Martin Baumann
12. Religions in India and China Today, Peter van der Veer
PART FIVE: JUDAISM
13. One People? Contemporary Jewish Identities, Eliezer
Ben-Rafael
14. Judaism and Global Religious Trends: Some Contemporary
Developments, Shlomo Fischer
PART SIX: THE COMPARATIVE DIMENSION
15. Religion, Territory and Multiculturalism, Yitzhak Sternberg
Bibliography
Index
Eliezer Ben-Rafael, PhD (1974) in Sociology, The Hebrew University
of Jerusalem, is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Tel Aviv
University. He is past President of the International Institute of
Sociology. His recent works include Jewish Identities (2001) and Is
Israel One? (2005). His edited works include Identity, Culture and
Globalization (2001); Sociology and Ideology (2003); Comparing
Modernities (2005) and Transnationalism (2009).
Yitzhak Sternberg, PhD (2004) in Sociology, Tel Aviv University,
teaches Sociology at the Open University and at Beit Berl College,
Israel. His edited works include Identity, Culture and
Globalization (2001); Comparing Modernities (2005); New Elites in
Israel (2007, in Hebrew); and Transnationalism (2009).
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