Global Religious Movements Across Borders: Sacred Service Edited by Stephen M. Cherry and Helen Rose Ebaugh Ashgate, 2014
Series : Ashgate Inform Series on Minority Religions and Spiritual Movements
http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409456872
From global missionizing among proselytic faiths to mass migration through religious diasporas, religion has traveled from one side of the world and back again. It continues to play a prominent role in shaping world politics and has been a vital force in the continued emergence, spread, and creation of a transnational civil society.
Exploring how religious roots are shaping organizations that seek to aid people across political and geographic boundaries – ‘service movements’
– this book focuses on how religious movements establish structures to assist people with basic human needs such as food, clothing, shelter, education, and health. Examining a multitude of faith traditions with origins in different parts of the world, seven contributing chapters, with an introduction and conclusions by the senior author, offer a unique discussion of the intersections between religious transnationalism and social movements.
Contents:
Preface, Helen Rose Ebaugh
Introduction to religious and global transnational service movements, Stephen M. Cherry
The Redeemed Christian Church of God: African Pentecostalism, Afe Adogame
The Gulen Movement: Sunni Islam, Helen Rose Ebaugh
Soka Gakkai International: Nichiren Japanese Buddhism, Daniel A. Métraux
BAPS Swaminarayan Community: Hinduism, Arun Brahmbhatt
The Gawad Kalinga Movement: charismatic Catholicism, Stephen M. Cherry
Aga Khan development network: Shia Ismaili Islam, Karim H. Karim
Bahá’í international community: Bahá’í faith, Mike McMullen
Studying global transnational religious service movements, Stephen M.
Cherry