Religion, Postcolonialism, and Globalization

Jennifer Reid is Professor of Religion at the University of Maine Farmington, USA. Her research interest is primarily in methodology in the study of religion and she has published extensively on issues relating to the relationship between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples in modernity and late-modernity.

The Religion, Postcolonialism and Globalization sourcebook is an invaluable resource for anyone who wants a better understanding of relationships between religion and the development of the modern world. For teachers this sourcebook clearly directs students attention to the 'Doctrine of Christian Discovery' as the basis of globalization. The consequences of this Doctrine to communities around the world after 1492 gives students a deeper and more profound appreciation of the world that they currently inhabit. It is already a required textbook in my religion and colonialism classes.

• Acknowledgments IntroductionSection I: Contextualizing GlobalizationSection I Part 1(i) Inter Caetera [Papal Bull, 1493] (ii) First Letters Patent Granted by Henry VI to John Cabot (March 5, 1496)(iii) An Act for Continuing in The East India Company, 1813Section I Part 2(iv) Tarak Barkawi 'Military Globalisation is Nothing New'(v) 'The Modern World System' Emmanuel Wallerstein(vi) 'The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism' Max WeberSection II: Religion and Globalization: A Dialogue With Prevailing WisdomSection II Part 1(i) 'The Clash of Civilizations' Samuel P. Huntington(ii) 'Jihad vs. McWorld' Benjamin Barber(iii) 'Ethics Must be Global, Not Local' Bill GeorgeSection II Part 2(iv) 'The Clash of Ignorance' Edward W. Said(v) 'Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy' Arjun Appadurai(vi) 'What Clash of Civilization? Why Religious Identity Isn’t Destiny' Amartya Sen(vii) 'Global Religion' David ChidesterSection III: CosmopolitanismSection III Part 1(i) 'Perpetual Peace' Emmanuel KantSection III Part 2(ii) 'The Kantian Project of the Constitutionalization of International Law: Does it Still Have a Chance?' Jürgen Habermas(iii) 'Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism' Martha Nussbaum(iv) 'Cosmopolitan Democracy and the Global Order: A New Agenda' David Held(v) 'The Case for Contamination' Kwame Anthony AppiahSection III Part 3(vi) 'Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism' Craig Calhoun(vii) 'Defining a New Cosmopolitanism: Towards a Dialogue of Asian Civilizations' Ashis Nandy(viii) 'Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language' Srinivas AravamudanSection IV: Before and Beyond the Discourse of GlobalizationSection IV Part 1(i) 'Excerpts from Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru' Garcilaso de la Vega(ii) Manifesto of the Second Pan-African Congress, 1921.(iii) 'The Fourth World: Nations Without a State' Bernard O. Nietschmann(iv) United League of Indigenous Nations Treaty, 2007(v) 'Economic Globalization, Indigenous Peoples, and the Role of Indigenous Women' Makere Harawira(vi) 'In Living Memory' Pedro Pérez SarduySection IV Part 2 (vii) 'EarthChild' Kofi Anyidoho (viii) 'My Kind of Exile' Tenzin TsundueReferences