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This groundbreaking text on globalization provides a comprehensive and enlightening overview of globalization issues and topics. Emphasizing the theory and methods that social scientists employ to study globalization, the text reveals how macro globalization processes impact individual lives—from the spread of scientific discourse to which jobs are more or less likely to be offshored. The author presents a clear image of “the big globalization picture” by skillfully exploring, piece by piece, a myriad of globalization topics, debates, theories, and empirical data. Compelling chapters on theory, global civil society, democracy, cities, religion, institutions (sports, education, and health care), along with three chapters on global challenges, help readers develop a broad understanding of key topics and issues. Throughout the text, the author encourages readers to relate their personal experiences to globalization processes, allowing for a more meaningful and relevant learning experience.
Religion: Conflict and Compromise
Religion: Conflict and Compromise
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Religion provides us with a worldview, answering existential questions concerning the meaning of life and practical questions concerning our obligations and duties to one another as members of humanity. Religion is one of the earliest sites of globalization. It is a vast topic. This chapter focuses on the puzzles and problems that shape modern religiosity. This chapter will help you
- understand how the turmoil of intense globalization gives rise to religious questions;
- analyze the conflicts between science and faith, and the accommodations resolving them made by various religious groups;
- assess how social problems and secularization test religion, and how religions have responded to them;
- evaluate liberal, conservative, and fundamentalist approaches to religious reform; and
- identify global trends in religion and religiosity, including ...
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