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DescriptionThe central idea behind this book is that the globalisation andpoliticisation of traditional religious identities is a historicalphenomenon with deep roots in the 19th-20th centuries. Tracing theemergence of 'Religious Internationals' as a distinctive new phenomenon inworld history, it transforms our understanding of the place of religion inthe modern world. Leading historians and social scientists break new groundby comparing the historical experiences of different faith communities inan age of globalisation without comparing them as religions. In-depth casestudies focus on the internationalist dimensions of Buddhism, Christianity(Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant), Hinduism, Judaism and Islam.Individually, they illuminate the complex processes whereby communities ofbelievers became communities of opinion. Collectively, they shed new lighton the origins and nature of global civil society, highlighting the role ofreligion as one of its motor forces from the start.*******************************************************************Table of Contents1. Introduction: Rethinking Religion and GlobalizationAbigail Green and Vincent ViaenePART I: THE RELIGIONS OF THE BOOK: TRAJECTORIES, COMPARISONS2. The Protestant InternationalChristopher Clark and Michael Ledger-Lomas3. Old Networks, New Connections: The Emergence of the Jewish InternationalAbigail Green4. Nineteenth-century Catholic Internationalism and its PredecessorsVincent Viaene5. The Islamic World: World System to 'Religious International'Francis RobinsonPART II: RELIGIOUS INTERNATIONALS IN TRANSITION6. Nationalism versus Internationalism: Russian Orthodoxy inNineteenth-Century Palestine Simon Dixon7. Muslim Internationalism between Empire and Nation-StateAmira K. Bennison8. Religious Internationalism in the Jewish Diaspora - Tunis at the Dawn ofthe Colonial Period Yaron Tsur9. Transnational Buddhist Activists in the Era of EmpiresAdam Yuet ChauPART III: RELIGIOUS INTERNATIONALS IN THE MODERN WORLD: LIMITS AND NEWHORIZONS10. The Hadhrami Sada and the Evolution of an Islamic ReligiousInternational, c. 1750s to 1930s William G. Clarence-Smith11. A Religious International in Southeastern Europe?Paschalis M. Kitromilides12. Activism as Engine: Jewish Internationalism, 1880s-1980sJonathan Dekel-Chen13. Protestant Ecclesiastical InternationalsJames C. Kennedy14. From State to Civil Society and Back Again: The Catholic Church asTransnational Actor, 1965-2005 R. Scott Appleby15. The Global Sangh Parivar: a Study of Contemporary International HinduismChristophe Jaffrelot and Ingrid TherwathReference: "Religious Internationals in the Modern World: Globalization and Faith Communities since 1750" edited by Abigail Green and Vincent Viaene, Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series, Palgrave Macmillan, 400p******************************************************************The EditorsABIGAIL GREEN. Fellow and Tutor in History at Brasenose College, Universityof Oxford, UK. She is the author of Fatherlands: State-building andNationhood in Nineteenth Century Germany (2001), and of Moses Montefiore:Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero (2010), nominated a Book of the Year byboth the TLS and New Republic.VINCENT VIAENE has published several edited volumes and 40 articles or bookchapters on Catholic internationalism, religious culture, Belgium's foreignrelations and Belgian imperialism. As a Marie Curie Fellow at Oxford, UK,he is currently working on a project entitled 'Internationalism and theCongo Question (1875-1914)'.*******************************************************************