Religion and Global Order.
edited by John L. Esposito and Michael Watson
- UK University of Wales Press, 2000
- x, 239 p. : ill. 22 cm.
- 13596 .
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Religion and Global Order. Has an overview of significance religion , religion's resurgence as a response to the widespread crisis in modernity and secular materialism; transnationalism and the challange to state sovereignty; the diplomatic and political role of the papacy as a global force; the supposed threat of political Islam to global order; the change from the old to the new post-1980 order in three main geopolitical areas- eastrn Europe, the middle East and the thrid world; the failing of the existing dominant order from thre perspectives.