Globalization, Identity Politics, and Social Conflict:
Contemporary Texts and Discourses

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Globalization and Religion: Identity and Power
INAES (Institute for North American and European Studies), University of Tehran
15-16 November 2005

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Abstracts of Contributions

Saied Reza Ameli
Cyber Capacity and Globalization of Religion in Two Parallel Worlds

Taghi Azad Armaki
Globalization and Iranian Identity

Mehri Bahar
Globalization and Religious Rituals

Shiva Balaghi
Islam and Democracy: Perspectives from Qajar Iran

Taieb Belghazi
The Moroccan Islamist Movement in a global context

Kaushik Bhaumik
Between Islam and Hinduism in the Age of Globalization: the Case of Contemporary Bombay Cinema

Brian T. Edwards
Circulation and Civilization: Rethinking Cultural Binarism in a Digital Age

Suman Gupta
John Walker Lindh and Salam Pax: The Blur in the Polarized Picture

Masoud Kousari
Religious Discourses and Globalization in Iran

Mohammad Ali Mousavi
Globalization and Religion: Coexistence and Conflict

Mohammad Reza Neyestani
Cultural and Religious Identities in era of Information and Communications Globalization

Robin Root
"Being Religious" in Malaysia's Multinationals: The Globalization of Capital and Disease

Ali A. Saeidi
Globalization and changing individual patterns of behavior: collective feature of religions

Mehdi Sanaie
Globalism and the Approach of Divine Religions to it

David J.Slocum
Religion as Culture, Culture as Religion: Making Meanings of American Violence”

Emma Tarlo
Cyber Clothing Dilemmas and the Globalisation of Islam

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