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Yale University Recommended Readings

Each of the courses recommend certain books and articles that offer insights into the interrelationship between faiths and globalisation. The readings for the Yale University course are grouped in themes and listed here:

Orientation and Historical Background

Clark, Gregory. "The Sixteen-Page Economic History of the World." Introduction to A Farewell to reading Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World, 1-16. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007.
Muller, Jerry Z. "Historical Backdrop: Rights, Righteousness, and Virtue." Ch. 1 in The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Modern European Thought, 3-19. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.
Schumpeter, Joseph A. "The Process of Creative Destruction." Ch. 7 in Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, 3rd edition, 81-6. New York: Harper & Row, 1975.
Taylor, Charles. "Modern Social Imaginaries." Public Culture 14, no. 1 (2002): 91-124.
Stakes in Faith & Globalisation
Huntington, Samuel P. "The Clash of Civilizations?" Foreign Affairs 72, no. 3 (1993): 22-49.
Sacks, Jonathan. Prologue to The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations, 1-23. New York: Continuum, 2002.
World Council of Churches. "The Agape Challenge." Ch. 1 in Alternative Globalization Addressing Peoples and Earth: A Background Document, 1-7. Geneva: World Council of Churches, 2005.

Promise and Peril of Globalisation

Appadurai, Arjun. "Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy." Ch. 2 in Modernity at reading Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization, 27-47. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.
Friedman, Thomas L. Excerpt from "While I Was Sleeping." Ch. 1 in The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, 3rd Revised and Expanded edition, 3-16 & 40-50. New York: Picador, 2007.
Stiglitz, Joseph E. "Another World is Possible." Ch. 1 in Making Globalization Work, 3-24. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006.

Secularisation and the Transformation of Faith

Berger, Peter L. "The Desecularization of the World: A Global Overview." In The Desecularization of reading the World: Resurgent Religion and World Politics, edited by Peter L. Berger, 1-18. Washington, D.C.: W.B. Eerdmans, 1999.
Eck, Diana L. "Introduction to a New America." Ch. 1 in A New Religious America: How A "Christian Country" Has Now Become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation, 1-25. New York, NY: Harper San Francisco, 2001.
Joas, Hans. "Religion in the Age of Contingency." Translated by Alex Skinner. In Do We Need Religion?: On the Experience of Self-Transcendence, 21-33. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2008.
Martin, David. "Pentecostalism: A Major Narrative of Modernity." Ch. 10 in On Secularization: Towards a Revised General Theory, 141-56. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005.

Faiths as Shapers of Globalisation

Casanova, José. "Rethinking Secularization: A Global Comparative Perspective." Hedgehog Review 8, reading no. 1-2 (Spr/Sum 2006): 7-22.
Ramadan, Tariq. Excerpt from Globalisation: Muslim Resistances, 3-13 & 22-30. Lyon, France: Tawhid, 2003.
John Paul II. "Address to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences." Vatican website (27 Apr 2001).
Taylor, Charles. "Two Theories of Modernity." In Alternative Modernities, edited by Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, 172-96. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001.

Reconciliation in the Name of Faith

Appleby, R. Scott. "Reconciliation and the Politics of Forgiveness." Ch. 5 in The Ambivalence of the reading Sacred: Religion, Violence, and Reconciliation, 167-204. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.
Blair, Tony. "Values and the Power of Community." Speech at Global Ethics Foundation of Tubingen. 10 Downing Street website (30 June 2000).
Smyth, Geraldine. "Brokenness, Forgiveness, Healing, and Peace in Ireland." In Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Religion, Public Policy & Conflict Transformation, edited by Raymond G. Helmick and Rodney Lawrence Petersen, 319-49. Philadelphia: Templeton Foundation Press, 2001.

Violence in the Name of Faith

Girard, René. "Mimesis and Violence." In The Girard Reader, edited by James G. Williams, 9-19. New reading York: Crossroad, 1996.
Juergensmeyer, Mark. "Cosmic War." Ch. 8 in Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence, 3rd edition, 148-66. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
Kimball, Charles. "Absolute Truth Claims." Ch. 2 in When Religion Becomes Evil: Five Warning Signs, revised and updated edition, 49-80. New York: HarperOne, 2008.

Values that Shape the Market

Dunning, John H. "The Moral Imperatives of Global Capitalism: An Overview." In Making Globalization reading Good: The Moral Challenges of Global Capitalism, edited by John H. Dunning, 11-33. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Cahill, Lisa Sowle. "Globalization and the Common Good." In Globalization and Catholic Social Thought: Present Crisis, Future Hope, edited by John Aloysius Coleman and William F. Ryan, 42-54. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2005.
Pareto, Vilfredo. Excerpt from "Introduction to Social Science." Ch. 2 in Manual of Political Economy, edited by Ann S. Schwier and Alfred N. Page, translated by Ann S. Schwier, 45. New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1971.
Weber, Max. "Asceticism and the Spirit of Capitalism." Ch. 5 in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, 102-125. Translated by Talcott Parsons. New York: Routledge, 2001. First published in 1930.

Corporate Governance

Bakan, Joel. "The Corporation's Rise to Dominance." Ch. 1 in The Corporation: The Pathological reading Pursuit of Profit and Power, 5-27. New York: Free Press, 2004.
Chakraborty, S. K. "Detached Involvement: Work-Ethic and Ethics-in-Work." Ch. 7 in Management by Values: Towards Cultural Convergence in The Management and Ethics Omnibus, 158-71. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Friedman, Milton. "The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits." New York Times Magazine (13 Sept 1970).
Shanmugam, Bala and Vignesen Perumal. "Governance Issues and Islamic Banking." In Corporate Governance: An Islamic Paradigm, edited by Vaseehar Hassan, Bala Shanmugam and Vignesen Perumal, 1-9. Shah Alam, Malaysia: Universiti Putra Malaysia Press, 2005.

Faiths and Poverty Alleviation

Bhagwati, Jagdish N. "Poverty: Enhanced or Reduced?" Ch. 5 in In Defense of Globalization, 51-67. reading New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Brugmann, Jeb and C. K. Prahalad. "Cocreating Business's New Social Compact." Harvard Business Review 85, no. 2 (2007): 80-90.
Marshall, Katherine and Marisa Bronwyn Van Saanen. "Faith Communities Engage the Millennium Development Goals" and "A Pathfinding Dialogue among the World Council of Churches, the IMF, and the World Bank." Chs. 2 & 16 in Development and Faith: Where Mind, Heart, and Soul Work Together, 23-32 & 195-208. Washington D.C.: World Bank, 2007.
White, Sarah and Romy Tiongco. Excerpt from "Poverty and Riches." Ch. 4 in Doing Theology and Development: Meeting the Challenge of Poverty, 62-73 & 85-92. Edinburgh: Saint Andrew Press, 1997.

Faiths, Globalisation and Gender

Freeman, Carla. "Is Local: Global as Feminine: Masculine? Rethinking the Gender of Globalization." reading Signs 26, no. 4 (2001): 1007-32.
Gibson-Graham, J. K. "Querying Globalization." Ch. 6 in The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy, 120-47. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1996.
Nussbaum, Martha C. Selections from "Religion and Women's Equality: The Case of India." In Obligations of Citizenship and Demands of Faith: Religious Accommodation in Pluralist Democracies, edited by Nancy L. Rosenblum, 335-6, 339-62, & 383-4. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000.

Faiths and Human Rights

"A Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the World's Religions." In Human Rights and
reading Responsibilities in the World Religions, edited by Joseph Runzo, Nancy M. Martin and Arvind Sharma, 141-7. Oxford: Oneworld, 2003.
Ramadan, Tariq. Excerpt from "Social Commitment and Political Participation." Ch. 7 in Western Muslims and the Future of Islam, 144-58. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
O'Donovan, Joan. "Rights, Law and Political Community: A Theological and Historical Perspective." Transformation 20, no. 1 (2003): 30-8.
Taylor, Charles. "Conditions of an Unforced Consensus on Human Rights." In The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights, edited by Joanne R. Bauer and Daniel A. Bell, 124-44. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Role of Faiths in Pluralistic Democracies

Jacoby, Susan. "America's Tower of Religious Babble is Already Too High." In Debating the Divine: reading Religion in 21st Century American Democracy, edited by Sally Steenland, 53-5. Washington, D.C.: Center for American Progress, 2008.
Rorty, Richard. "Religion in the Public Square: A Reconsideration." Journal of Religious Ethics 31, no. 1 (2003): 141-49.
Stout, Jeffrey. "Religious Reasons in Political Argument." Ch. 3 in Democracy and Tradition, 63-91. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004.
Wolterstorff, Nicholas. "An Engagement with Rorty." Journal of Religious Ethics 31, no. 1 (2003): 129-39.

Multiple Faiths, Common World

Blair, Tony. "Faith in Politics." Speech to the Christian Socialist Movement at Westminster Central reading Hall. 10 Downing Street website (29 Mar 2001).
Bretherton, Luke. "A Postsecular Politics?: Inter-Faith Relations as a Civic Practice." Lecture at Lambeth Palace (4 June 2009).
Volf, Miroslav. "A Voice of One's Own: Public Faith in a Pluralistic World." In Democracy and the New Religious Pluralism, edited by Thomas F. Banchoff, 271-81. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Weigel, George. "Faith, Freedom, Responsibility: Evangelicals and Catholics in the Public Square." In Evangelicals and Catholics Together: Toward a Common Mission, edited by Charles W. Colson and Richard John Neuhaus, 45-78. Dallas: Word Publishing, 1995.