While social scientists, beginning with Weber, envisioned a secularized world, religion today is forthrightly becoming a defining feature of life all around the

The twenty-first century is witnessing a resurgence and globalization of religion. Around the world, religion has become an increasingly more important and perv

In his exploration of the interaction between religion and worldwide social and cultural change, the author examines the major theories of global change and dis

This book provides a concise introduction into twenty-one trends that are transforming the role of religion and spirituality in “re-globalizing” societies.

In the early 1970s, accompanying the current wave of globalization, conservative nationalist religious movements began using religion to oppose non-democratic a