Claims that the current age is one of secularization are much exaggerated; even amid globalization, religion enjoys “a luxurious pluralism,” writes Peter L. Berger, a professor of sociology and ...
Nearly 500 years before Christopher Columbus set sail for the Americas, much of the world was already connected via trade, exploration, and cultural exchange. In fact, one can trace globalization all ...
Why do humans kill each other in the name of God? This is the central question posed by Jouni Suistola and Vamik Volkan in Religious Knives: Historical and Psychological Dimensions of International ...
Elizabeth Prodromou, an assistant professor in the Department of International Relations at Boston University, spoke to about 25 students on religion, human rights, and unexpected sources of conflict ...
Globalization is trumpeted by some and demonized by others as a pathway to either unprecedented global prosperity or increased poverty, among other benefits and ills. A new book by a UB law professor ...
April 28, 2005 - From the streets of Seattle to corporate boardrooms to new factories in third-world nations, globalization is subject to very different and often explosively divergent interpretations ...
When the historian Tara Zahra began to write her book “Against the World,” she tells us, Donald Trump had just been elected president, and the Brits had bolted from the European Union in a vote for ...
February 17, 2004 - Critics of globalization blame it for everything from child labor to environmental degradation, cultural homogenization, and a host of other ills afflicting poorer nations. In his ...
Straight Talk on Trade is the latest book in Dani Rodrik’s globalization series. The first—Has Globalization Gone Too Far?—raised concerns about social cohesion when large groups of people are left ...
In an important new book, Dani Rodrik shows that countries that grow and reduce poverty do so by following eclectic policies tailored to their own realities rather than by following a recipe of best ...
Economic globalization has always required ideological legitimation. In the first instance this legitimation was explicitly theological; today in Roman Catholic circles it continues to be. The first ...
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