a dialectic relation Ben Rafael, Eliezer. Sternberg, Yitzak. text bibliography Electronic books. Electronic books. ne Leiden Boston Brill 2010 monographic eng

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1 online resource (xiv, 408 pages) : illustrations. This book is about new forms of religious activities emerging in the context of their dialectic relations with contemporary multicultural realities. World religions are effectively a major agent of the multiculturalization of contemporary societies. However, multiculturalism pushes them not only toward change but also toward new conflicts. pt. 1. New perspectives. The new religious constellations in the frameworks of contemporary globalization and civilizational transformation / Shmuel N. Eisenstadt -- Religious America, secular Europe : framing the debate / Grace Davie -- Globalization, nationalism and religion : a multiple modernities perpsective on imperial and peripheral nations in post-Communist Europe / Willfried Spohn -- pt. 2. Christian faiths. Dynamics of ultramodern religiosity and new forms of religious spatiality / Danièle Hervieu-Lèger -- Pentecostalism : a Christian revival sweeping the developing world / David Martin -- Trans-national Pentecostalism and secular modernity / Bernice Martin -- pt. 3. Islam. Transnational Islam in a post-Westphalian world : connectedness vs. sovereignty / Armando Salvatore -- Autoritarian persistence and barriers to democracy in the Muslim Middle East : beyond cultural essentialism / Mehdi P. Amineh -- From Medina to the Ummah : Muslim globalization in historical and contemporary perspective / Peter Mandaville -- pt. 4. Asian religions. Establishment of Buddhist sacred space in contemporary India : the Ambedkarite Buddhism, Dalit civil religion and the struggle against social exclusion / Knut A. Jacobsen -- Hindu traditions in diaspora : shifting spaces and places / Martin Baumann -- Religions in India and China today / Peter van der Veer -- pt. 5. Judaism. One people? : contemporary Jewish identities / Eliezer Ben-Rafael -- Judaism and global religious trends : some contemporary developments / Shlomo Fischer -- pt. 6. The comparative dimension. Religion, territory and multiculturalism / Yitzhak Sternberg. edited by Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Yitzhak Sternberg. Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-392) and index. Religious pluralism Multiculturalism Religious aspects SOCIAL SCIENCE Sociology of Religion Multiculturalism Religious aspects Religious pluralism BL85 .W73 2010eb 306.6 Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010 (DLC) 2010027848 (OCoLC)642198820 9789004189188 9004189181 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=346111 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=346111 N$T 101207 20200709055320.0 ocn690111209 eng