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The 1980s and 1990s were an era of fundamental political, social and economic changes: many stemmed from, or were at least galvanized by, the ending of the Cold War, and were frequently associated with the multifaceted processes known collectively as ‘globalization’. There was not only the consolidation of a truly global economy and, some would say, the emergence of a global culture, but also a number of fundamental political developments, including steady, if uneven, advance of democracy1 in the Third World2 — from Latin America to Asia and Africa. Moreover, myriad examples of the political involvement of religious actors around the world were noted. The US commentator, George Weigel, claimed there was a global religious revitalization, amounting to an. ‘unsecularization of the world’(quoted in Huntington, 1993: 26).
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Haynes, J. (1999). Introduction. In: Haynes, J. (eds) Religion, Globalization and Political Culture in the Third World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27038-5_1
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