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To this day, the historical intertwining between religion and globalization remains a relatively understudied area of scholarship (for two notable exceptions, see Beyer, 2006; Warburg, 2006; for a general overview, Roudometof, forthcoming). In contrast to conventional perspectives, adopting a long-term view of globalization necessarily entails decentring the conventional narrative of Western modernization (O’Brien, 2006). Such a global-historical perspective entails the notion that pre-modern globalization was both important and consequential for humanity. It is furthermore important to incorporate into the analysis of the longue durée the realization that globalization does not annihilate life worlds and local structures and settings but rather interacts with them, producing new social and cultural configurations. Hence, the process is more accurately referred to as “glocalization”. As Robertson (1994) has suggested, glocalization offers a means of comprehending and interpreting cultural variety, hybridity, and fragmentation within the context of the problematic of global-local relations. While Robertson (1991: 282; Robertson and Garrett, 1991: xv) has referred to religion as a “genre of expression, communication and legitimation” for collective and individual identities, current perspectives have yet to illuminate the historical specifics of the manner in which these “glocal” identities are articulated within the framework of globalization analysis.
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Roudometof, V. (2014). The Glocalizations of Christianity in Europe. In: Robertson, R. (eds) European Glocalization in Global Context. Europe in a Global Context. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230390805_4
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