List of Tables vi
Acknowledgments vii
List of Abbreviations viii
1 Introduction: The Olympic Games and the Meaning of World Culture 1
2 Analyzing World Culture: Alternative Theories 30
3 Tracing World Culture: A Brief History 60
4 Constructing World Culture: UN Meetings as Global Ritual 81
5 Sustaining World Culture: The Infrastructure of Technology and Organizations 109
6 Differentiating World Culture: National Identity and the Pursuit of Diversity 135
7 Transforming World Culture: The Antiglobalization Movement as Cultural Critique 153
8 Expanding World Culture: Pentecostalism as a Global Movement 173
9 Opposing World Culture: Islamism and the Clash of Civilizations 191
10 Instituting World Culture: The International Criminal Court and Global Governance 215
11 Epilogue: Reflections on World Culture 234
References 241
Index 261
Frank J. Lechner is Associate Professor of Sociology at
Emory University. He has published numerous papers on global
change, fundamentalism, secularization, and sociological theory. He
is co-editor, with L. van Vucht-Tijssen and J. Berting, of The
Search for Fundamentals (1995).
John Boli is Professor of Sociology at Emory University.
He has published extensively on global culture and organizations,
education, citizenship, and state power and authority. His books
include New Citizens for a New Society (1989) and Constructing
World Culture (with George M. Thomas, 1999).
They are the co-editors of The Globalization Reader (2nd edition, Blackwell, 2003).
"Lechner and Boli's scholarship is extensive, theoretical, abstract
and synthetic ... The authors engage in conceptual and theoretical
refinement and synthesis of existing scholarship and extend that
intellectual frontier with their own substantial contributions.
Lechner and Boli ... deserve special commendation for the rich and
illuminating historical context and examples." Choice
"Lechner and Boli have done their homework and the compendium they
offer is valuable in itself."
The International History Review
"This volume provides a fascinating, and immensely broad-ranging,
call to understand the complex inter-relationships between
geopolitical forces and those resilient urban lives. Whilst as a
source of multiple departures it should be of interest to an
equally broad ranging audience, for those particularly curious
about the often-neglected ways in which extreme ideologies seek to
construct and reconstruct understandings of cities there is much to
consider." Andrew Inch, Oxford Brookes University
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