Religion in a Global Society or The Technology Leaders

Religion in a Global Society

Author: Peter Beyer

Saying the word "religion" in today's world evokes a bewildering and often contradictory variety of images and attitudes. From the Dalai Lama to Falun Gong, from mosque to temple, "religion" covers a multitude of practices, worldviews and cosmologies. This book, by a distinguished sociologist of religion, offers a way of understanding religion in contemporary global society, by analyzing it as a dimension of the historical process of globalization. Written with exceptional clarity, it introduces theories of globalization, show how they can be applied to world religions, and illustrates the discussion with examples ranging from Islam and Hinduism to African traditional religions and new age spirituality.

Table of Contents:

1	Globalization and global society	18
2	The religious system of global society	62
3	Formation and re-formation of Abrahamic religions : Christianity and Islam	117
4	The realization of Hinduism	188
5	Refusal and appropriation in East Asia : Confucianism and Shinto	225
6	New religions, non-institutionalized religiosity and the control of a contested category	254

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The Technology Leaders: How America's Most Profitable High-Tech Companies Innovate Their Way to Success

Author: Peter S Cohan

Follow America's High-Tech Leaders to Sustained Growth and Profitability
?With forceful and engaging style, Cohan describes what makes technology companies like Hewlett-Packard so successful....Any executive aspiring to market leadership should read The Technology Leaders.?
-- Dean O. Morton, retired executive vice president, COO and director, Hewlett-Packard Company As organizations emerge from an era of epochal downsizing, managers are beginning to realize that repeated cost-cutting is no longer the path to sustained profitable growth. Clearly, a new strategy is called for. In this landmark work, Peter Cohan details the practices of today's most vital, prosperous companies -- America's high-tech leaders -- and demonstrates how other companies can follow their remarkable example and thrive in a hypercompetitive marketplace driven by rapid product innovation.