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1. Circuits of the sacred -- 2. Civilisation with a capital C -- 3. Beyond the frontiers -- 4. The world religions -- 5. Medieval mirrors and the virtuous outsider -- 6. Strutting on the stage of empires -- 7. Missionaries, mystics, and the melding of faiths -- 8. Modernity's derailments -- 9. Globalisation and new landscapes of power -- 10. Relearning how to talk across traditions -- 11. Interreligious dialogue and its limits -- 12. Homelands and hospitality -- 13. World citizens in the making -- 14. Void or cosmos?.

ch. 1. Ethoses across time and space -- ch. 2. The atomist revolt -- ch. 3. Pacts, progress, and meritocracy -- ch. 4. Culture wars and character at history's end -- ch. 5. Populace as peril -- ch. 6. The escape from place and past --- ch. 7. Modernity's malcontents -- ch. 8. Fortresses become prisons -- ch. 9. The triple partnership and the world commonwealth.

""Beyond the Global Culture War"" presents a cross-cultural critique of global liberalism and argues for a broad-based challenge that can meet it on its own scale. Adam Webb is one of our most exciting and original young scholars, and this book is certain to generate many new debates. This timely volume probes many of the key challenges we face in the new millennium. This is essential reading for all students of politics and globalization