Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-239) and index.

Section I: Contextualizing globalization. Inter Caetera [Papal Bull, 1493] / Pope Alexander VI ; First letters patent granted by Henry VI to John Cabot (March 5, 1496) ; An act for continuing in the East India Company, 1813 ; Military globalisation is nothing new / Tarak Barkawi ; The modern world system : capitalist agriculture and the origins of the European world-economy in the sixteenth century / Immanuel Wallerstein ; The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism / Max Weber -- Section II: Religion and globalization : a dialogue with prevailing wisdom. The clash of civilizations? / Samuel P. Huntington ; Jihad vs. McWorld / Benjamin Barber ; Ethics must be global, not local / Bill George ; The clash of ignorance / Edward W. Said ; Disjuncture and difference in the global cultural economy / Arjun Appadurai ; What clash of civilization? / Amartya Sen ; Doing cross-cultural religious business : globalization, Americanization, cocacolonization, McDonaldization, tupperization, and other local dilemmas of global signification in the study of religion / David Chidester -- Section III: Cosmopolitanism. Perpetual peace : a philosophical sketch / Immanuel Kant ; The Kantian Project of the constitutionalization of international law : does it still have a chance? / Jürgen Habermas ; Patriotism and cosmopolitanism / Martha Nussbaum ; Cosmopolitan democracy and the global order : a new agenda / David Held ; The case for contamination / Kwame Anthony Appiah ; Cosmopolitanism and nationalism / Craig Calhoun ; Defining a new cosmopolitanism : towards a dialogue of Asian civilizations / Ashis Nandy ; Guru English / Srinivas Aravamudan -- Section IV: Before and beyond the discourse of globalization. Royal commentaries of the Incas and general history of Peru : Part one / Garcilaso de la Vega ; Manifesto of the second Pan-African Congress / W.E.B. Du Bois ; The Fourth World : nations without a state / Bernard Q. Nietschmann ; United League of Indigenous Nations Treaty, 2007 ; Economic globalization, indigenous peoples, and the role of indigenous women / Makere Harawira ; In living memory / Pedro Pérez Sarduy ; EarthChild / Kofi Anyidoho ; My kind of exile / Tenzin Tsundue.

Religion, Postcolonialism and Globalization: A Sourcebook shows how the roots of our globalized world run deeper than the 1980s or even the end of WWII, tracing back to 15th century European colonial expansion through which the 'modern world system' came into existence. The Sourcebook is divided into four sections, each with a critical introduction by the editor, a series of readings, and discussion questions based on the readings. Canonical readings in religion, globalization and postcolonialism are paired with lesser-known texts in order to invite critical analysis. Extracts explored include work by Max Weber, Edward Said, David Chidester, and Kant, as well as political documents such as the British Parliament's 1813 Act regarding the East India Company. Sources range from the origins of the common phrase "jihad vs. McWorld" in the work of Benjamin Barber, to personal essays reflecting religious responses to globalization. Focusing on a history of religions approach, Religion, Postcolonialism, and Globalization provides an alternative to existing sociological work on religion and globalization.

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