Religious Internationals in the Modern World

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction: Rethinking Religion and Globalization

   1. Introduction: Rethinking Religion and Globalization

      • Abigail Green, Vincent Viaene

      Pages 1-19

3. The Religions of the Book: Trajectories, Comparisons

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. The Protestant International

      • Christopher Clark, Michael Ledger-Lomas

      Pages 23-52

   3. Old Networks, New Connections: The Emergence of the Jewish International

      • Abigail Green

      Pages 53-81

   4. Nineteenth-Century Catholic Internationalism and Its Predecessors

      • Vincent Viaene

      Pages 82-110

   5. The Islamic World: World System to ‘Religious International’

      • Francis Robinson

      Pages 111-135

4. Religious Internationals in Transition

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137

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   2. Nationalism versus Internationalism: Russian Orthodoxy in Nineteenth-Century Palestine

      • Simon Dixon

      Pages 139-162

   3. Muslim Internationalism between Empire and Nation-State

      • Amira K. Bennison

      Pages 163-185

   4. Religious Internationalism in the Jewish Diaspora – Tunis at the Dawn of the Colonial Period

      • Yaron Tsur

      Pages 186-205

   5. Transnational Buddhist Activists in the Era of Empires

      • Adam Yuet Chau

      Pages 206-229

5. Religious Internationals in the Modern World: Limits and New Horizons

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 231-231

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   2. The Hadhrami Sada and the Evolution of an Islamic Religious International, c.1750s to 1930s

      • William G. Clarence-Smith

      Pages 233-251

   3. A Religious International in Southeastern Europe?

      • Paschalis M. Kitromilides

      Pages 252-268

   4. Activism as Engine: Jewish Internationalism, 1880s–1980s

      • Jonathan Dekel-Chen

      Pages 269-291

   5. Protestant Ecclesiastical Internationals

      • James C. Kennedy

      Pages 292-318

   6. From State to Civil Society and Back Again: The Catholic Church as Transnational Actor, 1965–2005

      • R. Scott Appleby

      Pages 319-342

   7. The Global Sangh Parivar: A Study of Contemporary International Hinduism

      • Christophe Jaffrelot, Ingrid Therwath

      Pages 343-364

6. Back Matter

   Pages 365-383

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Tracing the emergence of 'Religious Internationals' as a distinctive new phenomenon in world history, this book transforms our understanding of the role of religion in our modern world. Through in-depth studies comparing the experiences of Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Jews and Muslims, leading experts shed new light on 'global civil society'.

• globalization
• history
• Islam
• religion
• society
• world history

• Brasenose College, Oxford University, UK

  Abigail Green, Vincent Viaene

SCOTT APPLEBY Professor of History and the John M. Regan Jr. Director of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, France AMIRA K. BENNISON Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK ADAM YUET CHAU University Lecturer in the Anthropology of Modern China in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK WILLIAM GERVASE CLARENCE-SMITH Professor of the Economic History of Asia and Africa at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK CHRISTOPHER CLARK Director of Studies in History at St Catharine's College, UK, and teaches Modern European History in the History Faculty JONATHAN DEKEL-CHEN Senior Lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, in the Departments of Jewish History and General History SIMON DIXON Sir Bernard Pares Professor of Russian History at University College London, UK CHRISTOPHE JAFFRELOT Senior Research fellow at CERI-SciencesPo/CNRS. He teaches at Princeton and Yale, USA, King's College and Sciences Po JAMES C. KENNEDY Professor of Dutch History since the Middle Ages at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands MICHAEL LEDGER-LOMAS Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Peterhouse, Cambridge, UK PASCHALIS M. KITROMILIDES has a PhD from Harvard University, USA, and is Professor of Political Science at the University of Athens and Director, Institute for Neohellenic Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation FRANCIS ROBINSON, CBE Sultan of Oman Fellow, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and a Fellow of Brasenose College, as well as Professor of the History of South Asia, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK INGRID THERWATH completed her Ph.D. on 'The Indian State and the diaspora factor' at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales, Paris, France YARON TSUR Professor at Tel Aviv University, formerly at the Open University of Israel since its inception in 1975, where he headed the Modern Jewish History team, specializing in Muslim Lands, and in the ethnic problem in Israel.

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