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This book looks at religion from a global perspective and examines how religion is shaped by the larger set of political and economic relationships that make up today's world. Focusing mainly on Western religion and on the changing role of the United States in world affairs, the authors show how shifts in the hegemony of the United States is affecting religious and ideological trends. Attention is given particularly to the United States in relation to Latin America, South Africa, and the post-colonial world of China, Japan, and the Islamic states. This volume highlights the impact of greater global connectedness on the rise of new religious movements and changing patterns of establishment religion in the United States.
"Clearly, this is one of the hot topics across a variety of disciplines. Moreover, it is not just popular in the faddish sense, but it represents one of the truly seminal issues for scholars concerned with deciphering world trends and their meaning for peoples from first to third world nations." — William R. Garrett, St. Michael's College
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Wade Clark Roof
Part I: General Considerations
1. International Realities: Bringing the Global Picture into Focus
Robert Wuthnow
2. Religious Elites in Advanced Capitalism: The Dialectic of Power and Marginality
James Davison Hunter and James E. Hawdon
Appendix to Chapter Two
Part II: Core and Periphery
3. Old Religions and New Religions: The Lessons of the Colonial Era
Ninian Smart
4. "God Damn Yanquis"—American Hegemony and Contemporary Latin American Christianity
Graham Howes
5. Liberation Theology: Its Implications for Latin American Politics and American Catholicism
Juan Carlos Navarro
6. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Third World
James H. Cone
Part III: Mission and Ideology
7. World Christianity, the Missionary Movement and the Ugly American
A. F. Walls
8. The Yogi and the Commissar: Christian Missions and the New World Order in Africa
Lamin Sanneh
9. World Order and Mainline Religions: The Case of Protestant Foreign Missions
Michael A. Burdick and Phillip E. Hammond
Part IV: American Religion and Civic Culture
10. A World Polity Interpretation of U.S. Religious Trends Since World War II
George M. Thomas
11. Globalization and Theology in America Today
Max L. Stackhouse
12. Realism, Just War, and the Witness of Peace
Jean Bethke Elshtain
Part V: Concluding Reflections
13. On Thinking about Systems: Some Implications for the Study of Religion in the World Order
W. Barnett Pearce
14. World Order and Religion: A Match Made in Heaven or a Marriage of Convenience?
Rhys H. Williams
Contributors
Index