Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Religious interaction in a global context / James A. Beckford -- Religion and globalisation, or globalisation and religion? / Margit Warburg -- Purity and mixture -- religious plurality and the domestication of alterity / Olav Hammer -- Globalization, Bourdieu and new religions / Lene van der Au Kühle -- Organizational transformation in global religions : rethinking the relationship between organization, culture, and market / James V. Spickard -- Orbis terrarum Romanorum est : globalization processes in the Roman Empire / Ingvild Sælid Gilhus -- Early Christianity as a global religion / Ulrich Berner -- Systemic struggle between North American Indians and New Age / Armin W. Geertz -- Mapping globalization with the lens of religion : African migrant churches in Germany / Afe Adogame -- Archangel Gabriel online : the Salamullah movement in Indonesia and globalisation / Frida Mebius Önnerfors -- Managing deterritorialisation, sustaining belief : the Bochasanwasi Shree Akshar Purushottam Swaninarayan Sanstha as ethnographic case study and theoretical foil / Hanna H. Kim -- Religious globalisation : a material perspective : assessing the Mormon temple institution in terms of globalisation / Mikael Rothstein.

Globalization is a predominant theme in contemporary educationaland political circles. Research on globalization has becomea political priority because the world has become a 'single place'where local events may have worldwide political, economic andmilitary consequences. Oftentimes, however, cultural and religiousconsequences are ignored - although recent waves of violence seem tobe religiously fuelled.New Religions and Globalization argues that studying new religionsin a globalization perspective offers theoretical and methodologicaladvantages for the general study of religion and the genera.