Religion and Global Culture: New Terrain in the Study of Religion and the Work of Charles H. Long

Religion and Global Culture draws together the work of a group of historians of religion whose concern is situating the contemporary study of religion within the cultural complexity of the modern world. Each of the volume’s contributors has independently explored the implications of the work of historian of religion, Charles H. Long, who has located religion in the contacts and exchanges of the colonial and post-colonial periods. Together with Long, these scholars consider phenomena ranging from hierophanies of water in Tokyo and the civil and ritual activities of African immigrant communities in the United States to the philosophy of Sankara and the regional repercussions of multinational business. They invite a reconfiguration of the study of religion by localizing religion itself in the conflicted and cooperative relationships of the colonial and post-colonial periods.