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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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