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Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
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Routledge
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Peter Beyer, a distinguished sociologist of religion, presents a way of understanding religion in a contemporary global society - by analyzing it as a dimension of the historical process of globalization. Introducing theories of globalization and showing how they can be applied to world religions, Beyer reveals the nature of the contested category of ‘religion’: what it means, what it includes... Read more
Acknowledgements Introduction: Religion as Concept and Social Reality in Global Society 1. Globalization and Global Society 2. The Religious System of Global Society 3. Formation and Re-Formation of Abrahamic Religions: Christianity and Islam 4. The Realization of Hinduism 5. Refusal and Appropriation in East Asia: Confucianism and Shinto 6. New Religions, Non-Institutionalized Religiosity and the Control of a Contested Category Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Peter Beyer
