Transnational Transcendence: Essays on Religion and GlobalizationThomas J. Csordas This innovative collection examines the transnational movements, effects, and transformations of religion in the contemporary world, offering a fresh perspective on the interrelation between globalization and religion. Transnational Transcendence challenges some widely accepted ideas about this relationship—in particular, that globalization can be understood solely as an economic phenomenon and that its religious manifestations are secondary. The book points out that religion's role remains understudied and undertheorized as an element in debates about globalization, and it raises questions about how and why certain forms of religious practice and intersubjectivity succeed as they cross national and cultural boundaries. Framed by Thomas J. Csordas's introduction, this timely volume both urges further development of a theory of religion and globalization and constitutes an important step toward that theory. |
Contents
list of illustrations | 1 |
Is the Trans in Transnational the Trans in Transcendent? | 55 |
Veiled Missionaries and Embattled Christians in Colonial Sudan | 97 |
Diasporic Constructions | 121 |
Finitude and the PoliticalTheological Imagination | 145 |
Trajectories Frontiers and Reparations in the Expansion of Santo | 185 |
Peter F Cohen | 205 |
AfroAtlantic Ontology and | 231 |
Religious Utopias in India and China | 263 |
Anthropology of a Western Yogi | 279 |
Mahasayas mahasamadhi in 2004 | 293 |
The Global Reach of Gods and the Travels of Korean Shamans | 305 |
contributors | 327 |
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