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Preliminary material /P. Beyer and Beaman -- Introduction /Peter Beyer and Lori Beaman -- Global millennialism: A postmortem on secularization /Roland Robertson -- The cultural and religious character of world society /George M. Thomas -- Sacred place and sacred power: Conceptual boundaries and the marginalization of religious practices /Meredith Mcguire -- Globalization, migration and the two types of religious boundary: A european perspective /Margit Warburg -- Rethinking secularization: A global comparative perspective /José Casanova -- Religion as identity and contestation /John H. Simpson -- Globalization, religion and empire in Asia /Bryan S. Turner -- Globalization and the institutional modeling of religions /Peter Beyer -- Religious resurgence, conflict and the transformation of boundaries /Gary D. Bouma -- Religious organizations /John Boli and David V. Brewington -- 'Religion' in global culture: New directions in an increasingly self-conscious world /James V. Spickard -- Globalization and new religious movements /Elisabeth Arweck -- Religion and phases of globalization /George Van Pelt Campbell -- Religion and ecology in the context of globalization /Laurel Kearns -- Religious opposition to globalization /William A. Stahl -- Religion and exclusion/marginalization: Globalized pentecostalism among hispanics in Newark, N.J /Otto Maduro -- Religion and global flows /Michael Wilkinson -- Religion And The state: The letter of the law and the negotiation of boundaries /Lori Beaman -- Religion, law, and human rights /James T. Richardson -- Religious pluralism in a local and global perspective: images of the prophet Mohammed seen in a danish and a global context /Ole Riis -- Globalization and religion: The cases of Japan and Korea /Nobutaka Inoue -- The global migration of Sufi Islam to South Asia and beyond /Rubina Ramji -- Hinduism, gurus, and globalization /Shandip Saha -- Globalization and the conflict of values in middle eastern societies /Enzo Pace -- Sub-Saharan Africa /Afe Adogame -- Religions in contemporary Europe in the context of globalization /Vasilios Makrides -- Latin America: The \'other christendom\', pluralism and globalization /Paul Freston -- Index /P. Beyer and Beaman.

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