Globalisation has become a buzzword that typically refers to the intensifying integration of the world economy, especially as midwifed by technological advances. It also implies a growing political and cultural sense that all humanity is globally interdependent. There have always been individuals of course who have advocated such awareness, one of them being the founder of the Baha'i faith, who formulated a spiritual equivalent as the religion's central doctrine in the late 19th century: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch. Its emphasis on global unification made...
Globalisation has become a buzzword that typically refers to the intensifying integration of the world economy, especially as midwifed by technologica...
This volume draws together a selection of papers given at a conference held in Aarhus in 2002 under the auspices of the Research Network on New Religions (RENNER). They address questions that are vital for everyone in the modern world; whether approached as a reflection of world economy and power dynamics, new possibilities of communication and cultural exchange in the light of mass media and technology, increased cultural plurality in the wake of migration, or as a combination of any of these, globalization challenges the academic study of religion to renewed theoretical and methodological...
This volume draws together a selection of papers given at a conference held in Aarhus in 2002 under the auspices of the Research Network on New Religi...