This collection of essays, with special reference to Asia, analyzes religion through lived experience and reveals how religious phenomena are inextricably linked to globalizing processes.

Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction - Bei Dawei, Evangelos Voulgarakis and Derrick M. Nault; PART ONE: RELIGION IN GLOBAL AND TRANSCULTURAL PERSPECTIVE: Chapter 2: Adam Smith and the Neo-Calvinist Foundations of Globalization - Christian Etzrodt; Chapter 3: Daniel Quinn on Religion: Saving the World through Anti-globalism? - Bei Dawei; Chapter 4: Globalized Religion: The Vedic Sacrifice ("Yajña") in Transcultural Public Spheres - Silke Bechler; PART TWO: COMPARATIVE AND PLURALISTIC APPROACHES: Chapter 5: Mary, Athena and Guanyin: What the Church, the Demos and the Sangha Can Teach Us about Religious Pluralism and Doctrinal Conformity to Socio-cultural Standards - Evangelos Voulgarakis; Chapter 6: The Globalization of the New Spirituality and its Expression in Japan: The Case of Mt Ikoma - Girardo Rodriguez Plasencia; Chapter 7: Globalization and Religious Resurgence: A Comparative Study of Bahrain and Poland - Magdalena Karolak and Nikodem Karolak; PART THREE: RELIGION IN TAIWAN: Chapter 8: Religion in the Media Age: A Case Study of Da Ai Dramas from the Tzu Chi Organization - Pei-Ru Liao; Chapter 9: "Techno Dancing Gods": Comicized Deity Images as Expressions of Taiwanese Cultural Identity - Thzeng Chi Hsiung and Tsai Chin Chia; Chapter 10: Rituals of Identity in "Alid" Belief: Siraya Religion in Taiwan since 1945 - Tiaukhai Iunn; List of Contributors 

Edited by Derrick M. Nault, Bei Dawei, Evangelos Voulgarakis, Rab Paterson and Cesar Andres-Miguel Suva