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The Oxford Handbook of Global Religions
Juergensmeyer, Mark, Professor of sociology and global studies, and director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Print publication date: 2006 (this edition) Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-513798-9
Published to Oxford Handbooks Online: September 2009




58 Religion in Global Perspective
doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195137989.003.0058

Martin Riesebrodt
Abstract: Can One Theorize about Religion? – The Methodological Priority of Practices – The Logic of Religious Practices – Culture: Profane and Religious – The Logic of Religious Institutions – Secularization and the Global Resurgence of Religion

Keywords: Culture, Logic, Secularization, institution, religious,

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Full Book Contents
1 Thinking Globally About Religion
I Indic Cultural Region
2 Thinking Globally about Hinduism
3 Traditional Brahmanical Society
4 Popular Hindu Movements
5 The Sikh Community
6 The Jain Community
7 Hindu Communities Abroad
II Buddhist/Confucian Cultural Region
8 Thinking Globally about Buddhism
9 Theravada Buddhist Societies
10 Tibetan Buddhist Society
11 Vietnamese Religious Society
12 Traditional Chinese Religious Society
13 Popular Religion in Mainland China
14 Traditional Japanese Religious Society
15 Japanese New Religious Movements
16 Korean Religious Society
17 Buddhist Communities Abroad
III Jewish Cultural Region
18 Thinking Globally about Judaism
19 Jewish Communities in Israel
20 Jewish Communities in North Africa and the Middle East
21 Jewish Communities in Europe
22 Jewish Communities in the Americas
23 Jewish Communities in Asia
IV Christian Cultural Region
24 Thinking Globally about Christianity
25 Western European Catholic Societies
26 Eastern European Catholic Societies
27 European Protestant Societies
28 Orthodox Christian Societies
29 Religious Communities in Russia
30 The Coptic Community
31 Latin American Catholic Societies
32 North American Religious Communities
33 Evangelical Christian Community in North and South America
34 African Christian Communities
35 Christian Communities in South Asia
36 Christian Communities in China
37 Christian Communities in Southeast Asia
38 Mormon Communities around the World
V Islamic Cultural Region
39 Thinking Globally about Islam
40 Arab Islamic Societies
41 North African Islamic Societies
42 Sub-Saharan African Islam
43 European Islam
44 Shi'a Islamic Societies
45 Islamic Communities in Central Asia
46 Islamic Communities in South Asia
47 Islamic Societies in Southeast Asia
48 Chinese Islamic Communities
49 American Islamic Communities
50 Religious Movements with Islamic Origins
VI African Cultural Region
51 Thinking Globally about African Religion
52 Traditional African Religious Society
53 Afro-Caribbean Religious Societies
VII Local Religious Societies
54 Thinking Globally about Local Religious Societies
55 Native American Religious Societies
56 Australian Aboriginal Societies
57 Pacific Islands Religious Communities
VIII Understanding Global Religion
58 Religion in Global Perspective
59 Anti-Global Religion?
60 The Global Future of Religion
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