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2008 CALL  FOR PAPERS
GLOBALIZATION & ITS  DISCONTENTS:
MODERNIZATION,  CULTURE AND RELIGION

   Globalization offers a comprehensive framework for addressing prospects for the peaceful evolution of people and societies in the Third Millennium. Global markets, trade and communications, along with science and technology, now drive social, economic, and political development, modernization, and cultural change. The Enlightenment project of rationalization, secularization, and bureaucratization assumed the gradual waning of religion, while Max Weber cautioned that modernity would thus entail a "disenchantment of the world." Yet, by the Third Millennium, there is a remarkable resurgence of religion, along with national and ethnic communities which seek to retrieve traditional sources of individual and group identities in a world of "future shock," punctuated by the successive waves of the agricultural, industrial, and post-industrial revolutions. The result is a highly volatile mix of advanced technology, competing nation states, and archaic modes of self- and collective identification. The question arises: Can the world's diverse religious, philosophical, and cultural resources foster a dialogue rather than a "clash of civilizations," and thus contribute to peaceful change enhancing human rights and human dignity in a more civil global society? And, how can globalization contribute to socio-economic and political development and cultural change to advance human flourishing?

Manuscript Deadline: April 15, 2008. Send 3 both-sided copies of: 15-25 page mss., each with a 150-word Abstract, typed, double-spaced, in-text citation format, author identification on a separate sheet (with postage for mss. return/SASE) to: Dr. O. Gruenwald, JIS Editor, IIR, 1065 Pine Bluff Dr., Pasadena, CA 91107, USA.  Early mss. submissions recommended.  See also Mss. Guidelines.

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