A collection of essays demonstrating the ways diverse religious rituals, symbols, ethics and ideologies perform as primary planks in the construction of the public realm, with particular focus on peripheral nations and politicised spiritualities of resistance.

Has religion in fact been essential to globalisation, essentially preparing the ground for it? Insofar as globalisation has challenged the nation state, might it not also resist the ways religion has been pillaged and mobilised for nationalistic causes? Is there in fact a dialectical tension between religion and globalisation, a co-dependence and co-determinism? A provocative assessment of a contemporary phenomenon with both cultural and political dimensions, Religions/Globalizations will interest not only scholars in religious studies but also those studying Latin America, the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa. Contributors. David Batstone, Berit Bretthauer, Enrugue Dussel, Dwight N. Hopkins, Mark Juergensmeyer, Lois Ann Lorentzen, Eduardo Mendieta, Vijaya Rettakudi Nagarajan, Kathryn Poethig, Lamin Sanneh, Linda E. Thomas

Contents
Theoretical frameworks
The religion of globalization - Dwight N. Hopkins, University of Chicago Divinity School
The socio-historical meaning of liberation theology (reflections about its origin and world context) - Enrique Dussel, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa
Society's religion - the rise of social theory and discovery of religion - Eduardo Mendieta, University of San Francisco
The global rise of religious nationalism - Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara
Who is an Indian? Religion, globalization and Chiapas - Lois Ann Lorentzen, University of San Francisco
Case studies
The African transformation of Christianity - Comparative reflections on ethnicity and religious mobilization in Africa - Lamin Sanneh, Yale University Divinity School
Macro-economy, apartheid, and rituals of healing in an African indigenous church - Linda E. Thomas, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
From the thresholds of homes to globalized public arenas - Tracing the movement of a Hindu women's ritual in southern India - Vijaya Rettakudi, Nagarajan, University of San Francisco
Visa trouble - Cambodian American Christians and their defense of multiple citizenships - Kathryn Poethig, St. Lawrence University, New York
Televangelism - it's local and global dimensions - Berit Bratthauer
Dancing to a different beat - emerging spiritualities in the network society - David Batstone, University of San Francisco