Globalization Challenged

Globalization Challenged

Conviction, Conflict, Community

  • Auteur: Rupp, George; Bhagwati, Jagdish; Waldron, Jeremy; Proudfoot, Wayne
  • Éditeur: Columbia University Press
  • Collection: Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
  • ISBN: 9780231139304
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780231511353
  • Lieu de publication:  New York , United States
  • Année de publication électronique: 2006
  • Mois : Octobre
  • Langue: Anglais

In Globalization Challenged, George Rupp, president of the International Rescue Committee, outlines the steps necessary to engage the contemporary conflict between traditional religious belief and Western secularism.

According to Rupp, the key objective is to build a community that is inclusive without denying the validity of particular commitments. While he acknowledges the threat of "resurgent fundamentalism," Rupp also criticizes secularists who fail to recognize or acknowledge the role of religion and its ideological equivalents in influencing public policy. All views, he asserts, are subject to comparative appraisal. The challenge is to develop ways to evaluate different approaches responsibly, leading to a greater understanding of one's own convictions as well as the positions of others.

Rupp reinforces his critical and theoretical analysis with dramatic accounts of recent events in Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Sudan—places where the International Rescue Committee operates. He then addresses the role of globalization in fueling instability worldwide. Inadequately regulated privatization has compromised health care, education, and social programs in many countries, whereas an inclusive community would encourage a more equitable distribution of resources.

Essays by Jagdish Bhagwati, Jeremy Waldron, and Wayne Proudfoot expand Rupp's arguments, and in a final chapter Rupp responds to the issues they raise. Essential reading for anyone who hopes to understand the roots of today's geopolitical tensions, Globalization Challenged asks that we shed our complacency, recognize the legitimate role of conviction, and take actions to shape a more just and inclusive society.

  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • PART I: CONVICTION, CONFLICT, COMMUNITY
    • 1. CONVICTION IN AN AGE OF GLOBALIZATION
      • CONVICTION IN A PLURALISTIC WORLD
      • THE NEED FOR COMPARATIVE APPRAISAL
      • PUBLIC RELIGION AND SELF-CRITICAL SECULARISM
      • A CRITIQUE OF CURRENT TRENDS
      • GLOBALIZATION AND COMMUNITY
    • 2. LOCAL CONFLICT, GLOBALMIGRATION
      • UPROOTED PEOPLE ON THE MOVE
      • RESETTLEMENT HERE AND ABROAD
      • SUDAN AS AN INSTANCE
      • THE EXAMPLE OF AFGHANISTAN
      • LESSONS LEARNED
    • 3. GLOBALIZATION AND THE CHALLENGE OF INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY
      • GLOBALIZATION AND ITS CRITICS REVISITED
      • THE CASE OF THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
      • INDIVIDUALISM, WESTERN LIBERALISM, AND WORLD RELIGIONS
      • CONVICTION IN THE CONTEXT OF INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY
  • PART II: CRITICAL RESPONSES TO GLOBALIZATION CHALLENGED
    • 4. ARGUING FOR PLURALISM -JAGDISH BHAGWATI
      • CONVICTION VERSUS RELATIVISM
      • THE ETHICS OF ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION
      • INTERNATIONAL FLOWS OF HUMANITY
    • 5. SECULARISM AND THE LIMITS OF COMMUNITY -JEREMY WALDRON
      • PRESCRIPTIVE SECULARISM AND RELIGIOUS FAITH
      • COMMUNITY AND INCLUSION
      • RELIGIOUS CONVICTION AND POLITICAL ARGUMENT
      • A POLITICS OF MODERATE CONVICTION
    • 6. RELIGIOUS CONVICTIONS AND GLOBAL JUSTICE -WAYNE PROUDFOOT
      • RELIGIOUS CONVICTIONS AND PUBLIC DISCOURSE
      • COSMOPOLITANISM AND THE IRC
      • INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY
      • CRITICAL STUDY OF RELIGION
  • PART III: GLOBALIZATION CHALLENGED- AGAIN
    • 7. ANOTHER LOOK AT CONFLICT COMMUNITY, AND CONVICTION
      • GLOBAL PROCESSES/LOCAL IMPACTS
      • THE CHALLENGE OF INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY
      • COMMITMENT IF NOT CONVICTION
  • INDEX

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