RESPONDING TO GLOBALIZATION: RELIGION AND HUMAN FLOURISHING.

What is the relationship between religious faith and globalization processes? Does religion inevitably lead to global clashes of civilizations? Contributors to this special issue of The Review of Faith & International Affairs (Fall 2011) explore three themes: the compatibility between claims grounded in religious exclusivism and practices oriented toward political pluralism; our need for an understanding of globalization processes that does not rely on misleading images of a single human path of global “development”; and how the Christian tradition, as one faith among many, offers vital resources for thinking about the role of violence in the name of religion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]