Colonialism,corporeality and character: Methodist missions and the refashioning of bodies in the pacific |
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Authors: | Richard Eves |
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Institution: | The Australian National University |
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Abstract: | Today, dramatic improvements in transportation and social communications are forging dense transnational networks. People, cultures and societies that were previously isolated from one another are now coming into regular contact. This abolition of temporal and spatial constraints affects both the social and cultural spheres: globalization provides a common context that attenuates differences among ways of life. After reviewing the major social theories on cultural globalization, this article focuses on religions within cultural globalization and describes the similarities between Islam and other major religious traditions, as they interplay with globalization. |
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Keywords: | Globalization Culture Religion Islam Muslim minorities Democracy Secularization |
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