Global Religious Movements Across Borders (eBook)

Sacred Service

Stephen M. Cherry, Helen Rose Ebaugh (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
236 Seiten
Taylor and Francis (Verlag)
978-1-317-12732-1 (ISBN)

Infos

From global missionizing among proselytic faiths to mass migration through religious diasporas, religion has traveled from one side of the world and back again. It continues to play a prominent role in shaping world politics and has been a vital force in the continued emergence, spread, and creation of a transnational civil society. Exploring how religious roots are shaping organizations that seek to aid people across political and geographic boundaries - 'service movements' - this book focuses on how religious movements establish structures to assist people with basic human needs such as food, clothing, shelter, education, and health. Examining a multitude of faith traditions with origins in different parts of the world, seven contributing chapters, with an introduction and conclusions by the senior author, offer a unique discussion of the intersections between religious transnationalism and social movements.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.4.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 1-317-12732-3 / 1317127323
• ISBN-13: 978-1-317-12732-1 / 9781317127321