Based on a conference held Apr. 5-7, 2001 at the University of Maine at Farmington.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-195) and index.
Introduction / Asking the question of the origin of religion in the age of globalization / Religion, globalization, and the university / Sacred landscapes and global religion: reflections on the significance of indigenous religions for university culture / "Faire place à une race Métisse": colonial crisis and the vision of Louis Riel / Mthunzini (a place in the shade): religion and the heat of globalization / Globalization and African immigrant religious communities / Ogu's iron or Jesus' irony: who's zooming who in diasporic possession cult activity? / Future of our world: indigenous peoples, indigenous philosophies, and the preservation of Mother Earth / Cross-cultural religious business: Cocacolonization, McDonaldization, Disneyization, Tupperization, and other local dilemmas of global signification / Indigenous people, materialities, and religion: outline for a new orientation to religious meaning / Jennifer I.M. Reid -- Tatsuo Murakami -- Kees W. Bolle -- Philip P. Arnold -- Jennifer I.M. Reid -- Chirevo V. Kwenda -- Jacob K. Olupona -- Jim Perkinson -- Julian Kunnie -- David Chidester -- Charles H. Long.
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