Table of Contents:
  • 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 / Daniele Hervieu-Leger
  • 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