Global Religious Movements Across Borders : Sacred Service

From global missionizing among proselytic faiths to mass migration through religious diasporas, religion has traveled from one side of the world and back again. It continues to play a prominent role in shaping world politics and has been a vital force in the continued emergence, spread, and creation of a transnational civil society. Exploring how religious roots are shaping organizations that seek to aid people across political and geographic boundaries - 'service movements' - this book focuses on how religious movements establish structures to assist people with basic human needs such as food, clothing, shelter, education, and health. Examining a multitude of faith traditions with origins in different parts of the world, seven contributing chapters, with an introduction and conclusions by the senior author, offer a unique discussion of the intersections between religious transnationalism and social movements.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter|34 pages
Introduction to Religious and Global Transnational Service Movements
By Stephen M. Cherry
Chapter|26 pages
The Redeemed Christian Church of God: African Pentecostalism
By Afe Adogame
Chapter|18 pages
The Gulen Movement: Sunni Islam
By Helen Rose Ebaugh
Chapter|19 pages
Soka Gakkai International: Nichiren Japanese Buddhism
By Daniel A. Metraux
Chapter|25 pages
BAPS Swaminarayan Community: Hinduism
By Arun Brahmbhatt
Chapter|18 pages
The Gawad Kalinga Movement: Charismatic Catholicism
By Stephen M. Cherry
Chapter|18 pages
Aga Khan Development Network: Shia Ismaili Islam
By Karim H. Karim
Chapter|23 pages
Bahá'í International Community: Bahá'í Faith
By Mike McMullen
Chapter|27 pages
Studying Global Transnational Religious Service Movements
By Stephen M. Cherry