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Preliminary Material /E. Ben-Rafael and Y. Sternberg -- Introduction A Dialectic Relation /Eliezer Ben-Rafael -- Chapter One. The New Religious Constellations In The Frameworks Of Contemporary Globalization And Civilizational Transformation /Shmuel N. Eisenstadt -- Chapter Two. Religious America, Secular Europe: Framing The Debate /Grace Davie -- Chapter Three. Globalization, Nationalism And Religion: A Multiple Modernities Perspective On Imperial And Peripheral Nations In Post-Communist Europe /Willfried Spohn -- Chapter Four. Dynamics Of Ultramodern Religiosity And New Forms Of Religious Spatiality /Danièle Hervieu-Léger -- Chapter Five. Pentecostalism: A Christian Revival Sweeping The Developing World /David Martin -- Chapter Six. Trans-National Pentecostalism And Secular Modernity /Bernice Martin -- Chapter Seven. Transnational Islam In A Post-Westphalian World: Connectedness Vs. Sovereignty /Armando Salvatore -- Chapter Eight. Authoritarian Persistence And Barriers To Democracy In The Muslim Middle East: Beyond Cultural Essentialism /Mehdi P. Amineh -- Chapter Nine. From Medina To The Ummah: Muslim Globalization In Historical And Contemporary Perspective /Peter Mandaville -- Chapter Ten. Establishment Of Buddhist Sacred Space In Contemporary India: The Ambedkarite Buddhism, Dalit Civil Religion And The Struggle Against Social Exclusion /Knut A. Jacobsen -- Chapter Eleven. Hindu Traditions In Diaspora: Shifting Spaces And Places /Martin Baumann -- Chapter Twelve. Religions In India And China Today /Peter Van Der Veer -- Chapter Thirteen. One People? Contemporary Jewish Identities /Eliezer Ben-Rafael -- Chapter Fourteen. Judaism And Global Religious Trends: Some Contemporary Developments /Shlomo Fischer -- Chapter Fifteen. Religion, Territory And Multiculturalism /Yitzhak Sternberg -- Bibliography /E. Ben-Rafael and Y. Sternberg -- Index /E. Ben-Rafael and Y. Sternberg.

Preliminary Materials /E. Ben-Rafael -- Introduction Debating Transnationalism /Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Yitzhak Sternberg -- Chapter One. New Transnational Communities And Networks: Globalization Changes In Civilizational Frameworks /Shmuel N. Eisenstadt -- Chapter Two. Deconstructing And Reconstructing "Diaspora": A Study In Socio-Historical Semantics /Stéphane Dufoix -- Chapter Three. The Diaspora And The Homeland: Reciprocities, Transformations, And Role Reversals /William Safran -- Chapter Four. Contemporary Immigration In Comparative Perspective /Yitzhak Sternberg -- Chapter Five. Solid, Ductile And Liquid: Changing Notions Of Homeland And Home In Diaspora Studies /Robin Cohen -- Chapter Six. The Misfortunes Of Integration /Michel Wieviorka -- Chapter Seven. Value-Orientations In Catholic, Muslim And Protestant Societies /Ephraim Yuchtman-Yaar and Yasmin Alkalay -- Chapter Eight. Rethinking History From Transnational Perspectives /David Thelen -- Chapter Nine. Across Space And Time: Identity And Transnational Diasporas /Tobie Nathan -- Chapter Ten. The Transglobal Network Nation: Diaspora, Homeland, And Hostland /Michel S. Laguerre -- Chapter Eleven. International Migration Of Jews /Sergio Dellapergola -- Chapter Twelve. Is The Jewish Transnational Diaspora Still Unique? /Yosef Gorny -- Chapter Thirteen. American Jewry's 'Social Zion': Changes Through Time /Allon Gal -- Chapter Fourteen. The New Russian-Jewish Diaspora In Israel And In The West: Between Integration And Transnationalism /Larissa I. Remennick -- Appendix The. Russian Language In Israel /Marina Niznik -- Chapter Fifteen. Russian-Speaking Jews And Germany's Local Jewry /Julius H. Schoeps -- Chapter Sixteen. Israeli And American Jews: Kinsmen Apart /Moshe Shokeid -- Chapter Seventeen. By The Israeli Jewish Diaspora In The United States: Socio-Cultural Mobility And Attachment To Homeland /Uzi Rebhun -- Chapter Eighteen. "Majority Societies" In Jewish Diasporas: Latin American Experiences /Haim Avni -- Chapter Nineteen. Latin American Jews: A Transnational Diaspora /Judit Bokser Liwerant -- Chapter Twenty. A Reexamination Of The Main Theoretical Approaches To The Study Of Diasporas And Their Applicability To The Jewish Diaspora /Gabriel Sheffer -- Chapter Twenty-One. The Linguistic Landscape Of Transnationalism: The Divided Heart Of Europe /Miriam Ben-Rafael and Eliezer Ben-Rafael -- Chapter Twenty-Two. Muslim Transnationalism And Diaspora In Europe: Migrant Experience And Theoretical Reflection /Nina Clara Tiesler -- Appendix Jews. And Muslims In Contemporary France /Roland Goetschel -- Chapter Twenty-Three. Roman Catholicism And The Challenge Of Globalization /Danièle Hervieu-Léger -- Chapter Twenty-Four. Accidental Diasporas And External "Homelands" In Central And Eastern Europe: Past And Present /Rogers Brubaker -- Chapter Twenty-Five. Marginality Reconstructed: Sub-National And Transnational Identities In The Wake Of International Migration And Tourism /Victor Azarya -- Chapter Twenty-Six. Civil Society In The United States: From Pluralism To Multiculturalism And Fragmentation Into Diasporas /Richard Münch.

The authors of this collection, renowned scholars from around the world, explore the tensions and dilemmas that impact pluralism and homogeneity in modern societies. This book is in homage to Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt. We honor his ground-breaking work in the comparative study of modernities and civilizations