World Order and Religion

Wade Clark Roof is Professor of Religion and Society in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Community and Commitment: Religious Plausibility in a Liberal Protestant Church and American Mainline Religion: Its Changing Shape and Future; and he is editor of Race and Residence in American Cities: Religion in America Today; and Liberal Protestantism: Realities and Possibilities.

• Acknowledgments IntroductionWade Clark Roof Part I: General Considerations 1. International Realities: Bringing the Global Picture into FocusRobert Wuthnow 2. Religious Elites in Advanced Capitalism: The Dialectic of Power and MarginalityJames Davison Hunter and James E. Hawdon Appendix to Chapter Two Part II: Core and Periphery 3. Old Religions and New Religions: The Lessons of the Colonial EraNinian Smart 4. "God Damn Yanquis"—American Hegemony and Contemporary Latin American ChristianityGraham Howes 5. Liberation Theology: Its Implications for Latin American Politics and American CatholicismJuan Carlos Navarro 6. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Third WorldJames H. Cone Part III: Mission and Ideology 7. World Christianity, the Missionary Movement and the Ugly AmericanA. F. Walls 8. The Yogi and the Commissar: Christian Missions and the New World Order in AfricaLamin Sanneh 9. World Order and Mainline Religions: The Case of Protestant Foreign MissionsMichael A. Burdick and Phillip E. Hammond Part IV: American Religion and Civic Culture 10. A World Polity Interpretation of U.S. Religious Trends Since World War IIGeorge M. Thomas 11. Globalization and Theology in America TodayMax L. Stackhouse 12. Realism, Just War, and the Witness of PeaceJean Bethke Elshtain Part V: Concluding Reflections 13. On Thinking about Systems: Some Implications for the Study of Religion in the World OrderW. Barnett Pearce 14. World Order and Religion: A Match Made in Heaven or a Marriage of Convenience?Rhys H. Williams Contributors Index

"Clearly, this is one of the hot topics across a variety of disciplines. Moreover, it is not just popular in the faddish sense, but it represents one of the truly seminal issues for scholars concerned with deciphering world trends and their meaning for peoples from first to third world nations." — William R. Garrett, St. Michael's College