Religious Internationals in the Modern World: Globalization and Faith Communities since 1750

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: Rethinking Religion and Globalization....Pages 1-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
The Protestant International....Pages 23-52
Old Networks, New Connections: The Emergence of the Jewish International....Pages 53-81
Nineteenth-Century Catholic Internationalism and Its Predecessors....Pages 82-110
The Islamic World: World System to ‘Religious International’....Pages 111-135
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
Nationalism versus Internationalism: Russian Orthodoxy in Nineteenth-Century Palestine....Pages 139-162
Muslim Internationalism between Empire and Nation-State....Pages 163-185
Religious Internationalism in the Jewish Diaspora – Tunis at the Dawn of the Colonial Period....Pages 186-205
Transnational Buddhist Activists in the Era of Empires....Pages 206-229
Front Matter....Pages 231-231
The Hadhrami Sada and the Evolution of an Islamic Religious International, c.1750s to 1930s....Pages 233-251
A Religious International in Southeastern Europe?....Pages 252-268
Activism as Engine: Jewish Internationalism, 1880s–1980s....Pages 269-291
Protestant Ecclesiastical Internationals....Pages 292-318
From State to Civil Society and Back Again: The Catholic Church as Transnational Actor, 1965–2005....Pages 319-342
The Global Sangh Parivar: A Study of Contemporary International Hinduism....Pages 343-364
Back Matter....Pages 365-383