Introduction (Peter Beyer & Lori Beaman) -- PART ONE THEORETICAL AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES -- 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) -- PART TWO RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS AND GLOBALIZATION -- 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 & 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) -- PART THREE KEY ISSUES IN THE RELATION OF RELIGION, GLOBALIZATION AND CULTURE -- 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) -- PART FOUR REGIONAL PARTICULARIZATIONS.

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.