World religions and multiculturalism : a dialectic relation / / edited by Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Yitzhak Sternberg.

• Superior document: International comparative social studies ; v. 23
• TeilnehmendeR: Ben Rafael, Eliezer.; Sternberg, Yitzak.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: International comparative social studies ; v. 23.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (424 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction A Dialectic Relation /; Chapter One. The New Religious Constellations In The Frameworks Of Contemporary Globalization And Civilizational Transformation /; Chapter Two. Religious America, Secular Europe: Framing The Debate /; Chapter Three. Globalization, Nationalism And Religion: A Multiple Modernities Perspective On Imperial And Peripheral Nations In Post-Communist Europe /; Chapter Four. Dynamics Of Ultramodern Religiosity And New Forms Of Religious Spatiality /; Chapter Five. Pentecostalism: A Christian Revival Sweeping The Developing World /; Chapter Six. Trans-National Pentecostalism And Secular Modernity /; Chapter Seven. Transnational Islam In A Post-Westphalian World: Connectedness Vs. Sovereignty /; Chapter Eight. Authoritarian Persistence And Barriers To Democracy In The Muslim Middle East: Beyond Cultural Essentialism /; Chapter Nine. From Medina To The Ummah: Muslim Globalization In Historical And Contemporary Perspective /; Chapter Ten. Establishment Of Buddhist Sacred Space In Contemporary India: The Ambedkarite Buddhism, Dalit Civil Religion And The Struggle Against Social Exclusion /; Chapter Eleven. Hindu Traditions In Diaspora: Shifting Spaces And Places /; Chapter Twelve. Religions In India And China Today /; Chapter Thirteen. One People? Contemporary Jewish Identities /; Chapter Fourteen. Judaism And Global Religious Trends: Some Contemporary Developments /; Chapter Fifteen. Religion, Territory And Multiculturalism /; Bibliography /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 128294892X; 9786612948923; 9004189181
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Yitzhak Sternberg.

This book is about new forms of religiosity and religious activity emerging in the context of their dialectic relations with contemporary multicultural realities. World religions are effectively a major agent of the multiculturalization of contemporary societies. However, multiculturalism pushes them not only toward change and reforms, but also toward new conflicts between and within them. This process should remind us of the Jewish legend of the Golem – an animated being created by man which finally challenges the latter’s control over it - a dialectic relation, indeed. World religions today greatly contribute to a world (dis)order that is multicultural both when viewed as a whole, and from within most societies that compose it. It is a development that contrasts both with the assumption that globalization implies one-way homogenization and convergence to Western modernity, and the expectation that globalization would be bound to polarize homogeneous civilizations.