Transnational Religion And Fading States

Rudolph, Susanne H | Piscatori, James

• Preface -- Introduction: Religion, States, and Transnational Civil Society -- Self-Organization: From Society and from Below -- Trans-state Islam and Security -- Muslim Missionaries and African States -- Bridging the Gap Between Empowerment and Power in Latin America -- Faces of Catholic Transnationalism: In and Beyond France -- Hierarchy: From a Center and from Above -- Globalizing Catholicism and the Return to a "Universal" Church -- World Religions and National States: Competing Claims in East Asia -- Religious Resource Networks: Roman Catholic Philanthropy in Central and East Europe -- In Defense of Allah's Realm: Religion and Statecraft in Saudi Foreign Policy Strategy -- Reflections -- Dehomogenizing Religious Formations