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 / 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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