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Religion and global culture : new terrain in the study of religion and the work of Charles H. Long / edited by Jennifer I.M. Reid.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, ©2003.Description: 1 online resource (x, 202 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780739160169
  • 0739160168
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Religion and global culture.DDC classification:
  • 200/.9 22
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  • BL65.C8 R444 2003eb
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  • online - EBSCO
  • 11.01
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Contents:
Introduction / Jennifer I.M. Reid -- Asking the question of the origin of religion in the age of globalization / Tatsuo Murakami -- Religion, globalization, and the university / Kees W. Bolle -- Sacred landscapes and global religion: reflections on the significance of indigenous religions for university culture / Philip P. Arnold -- "Faire place à une race Métisse": colonial crisis and the vision of Louis Riel / Jennifer I.M. Reid -- Mthunzini (a place in the shade): religion and the heat of globalization / Chirevo V. Kwenda -- Globalization and African immigrant religious communities / Jacob K. Olupona -- Ogu's iron or Jesus' irony: who's zooming who in diasporic possession cult activity? / Jim Perkinson -- Future of our world: indigenous peoples, indigenous philosophies, and the preservation of Mother Earth / Julian Kunnie -- Cross-cultural religious business: Cocacolonization, McDonaldization, Disneyization, Tupperization, and other local dilemmas of global signification / David Chidester -- Indigenous people, materialities, and religion: outline for a new orientation to religious meaning / Charles H. Long.
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Summary: Religion and Global Culture draws together the work of a group of historians of religion who are concerned with situating the contemporary study of religion within the cultural complexity of the modern world. The writing of each of the volume's contributors relates to the work of leading historian of religion Charles H. Long, who has identified religious meanings in the contacts and exchanges of the colonial and postcolonial periods. Together with Long, these scholars explore religious practices in a variety of globalized contexts; chapters consider such varied subjects as the rituals of Afric.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-195) and index.

Introduction / Jennifer I.M. Reid -- Asking the question of the origin of religion in the age of globalization / Tatsuo Murakami -- Religion, globalization, and the university / Kees W. Bolle -- Sacred landscapes and global religion: reflections on the significance of indigenous religions for university culture / Philip P. Arnold -- "Faire place à une race Métisse": colonial crisis and the vision of Louis Riel / Jennifer I.M. Reid -- Mthunzini (a place in the shade): religion and the heat of globalization / Chirevo V. Kwenda -- Globalization and African immigrant religious communities / Jacob K. Olupona -- Ogu's iron or Jesus' irony: who's zooming who in diasporic possession cult activity? / Jim Perkinson -- Future of our world: indigenous peoples, indigenous philosophies, and the preservation of Mother Earth / Julian Kunnie -- Cross-cultural religious business: Cocacolonization, McDonaldization, Disneyization, Tupperization, and other local dilemmas of global signification / David Chidester -- Indigenous people, materialities, and religion: outline for a new orientation to religious meaning / Charles H. Long.

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Religion and Global Culture draws together the work of a group of historians of religion who are concerned with situating the contemporary study of religion within the cultural complexity of the modern world. The writing of each of the volume's contributors relates to the work of leading historian of religion Charles H. Long, who has identified religious meanings in the contacts and exchanges of the colonial and postcolonial periods. Together with Long, these scholars explore religious practices in a variety of globalized contexts; chapters consider such varied subjects as the rituals of Afric.

English.