Overview
- Offers a comprehensive overview of the effects of globalization on religion and spirituality, analyzing 21 main trends
- Explores reciprocal effects of religion and spirituality on economics, politics, culture, demography, technology
- Combines a “big picture” approach with specific case studies, making it ideally suited for classroom use
Part of the book series: Culture and Religion in International Relations (CRIR)
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Table of contents (32 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Global Setting
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A Changing Cultural Horizon
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21 Trends
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Effects of the 21 Trends and the Prospects
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About this book
This book provides a concise introduction into twenty-one trends that are transforming the role of religion and spirituality in “re-globalizing” societies. In referring to processes of “re-globalization”, the book draws attention to profound ongoing changes in the patterns and mechanisms of contemporary globalization. Inter- and transdisciplinary in its approach, clearly structured, and easy to read, the book analyzes the impact of religious self-understanding, rhetoric, and practice on five core fields: economics, politics, culture, demography, and technology. In turn, it describes the effects of these five fields on religion and spirituality themselves.
This book represents a broad, encompassing overview of the main transformations that religion is undergoing today. Roland Benedikter combines a “big picture” approach with a keen attention to the details of specific case studies. With its clear and accessible structure and timely examples, this book is ideally suited for students of international relations and religious studies, and will also appeal to researchers engaged in those fields and to interested general readers. The book is also apt to serve as an encompassing basis for contemporary debates in civil society, including both grassroots and expert discussions.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Roland Benedikter is Co-Head of the Center for Advanced Studies at Eurac Research in Bolzano, Italy; Research Professor of Multidisciplinary Political Analysis in residence at the Willy Brandt Centre at Wroclaw University, Poland; and Member of the Future Circle of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research for the German Federal Government.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Religion in the Age of Re-Globalization
Book Subtitle: A Brief Introduction
Authors: Roland Benedikter
Series Title: Culture and Religion in International Relations
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80857-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Eurac Research 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-80856-3Published: 14 December 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-80859-4Published: 15 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-80857-0Published: 13 December 2021
Series ISSN: 2945-7831
Series E-ISSN: 2945-784X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 415
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Relations Theory, Globalization, Religious Studies, general