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This paper examines how yajña, a traditional Indian ritual involving sacrificial offerings into fire, has been reshaped through globalizing processes. Traditionally, yajña sacrifices, which can be traced back three thousand years, focused on individual needs such as good health, prosperity,…

The number of Internet users is growing exponentially in China and Chinese netizens are slowly developing social groupings online that influence events and situations in the “real” world. The Chinese government is predictably wary of these developments as an emerging…

This paper argues that globalization - in the sense of an increasing economic interconnectedness and cultural homogeneity - is a recent phenomenon linked to a long historical process with foundations in a specific religious doctrine: Neo-Calvinism. Free trade ideology was…

As occupants of Planet Earth, we are currently experiencing what might be described as “strange situations”: 9/11, global warming, and the demise of the grand narrative, to name three. Strange situations pose threats of psychological and physical annihilation. Individual reactions…

The term “Third World” refers to all developing nations in Asia, Africa and Latin America. During the Mao and the Deng eras, China mainly responded to pressures from the United States and the Soviet Union and was not able to…