The essays in this volume explore the difficulties and possibilities of a diversity of religious groups occupying the same civil society. The authors avoid simplistic generalizaitons. Religion, they show, is not only identified with the culture and politics of the hostile anti-urban village - it is not simply the jihad that Benjamin Barber identified as the opponent of the homogenous global culture of McWorld. Religion, these essays demonstrate, plays diverse and sometimes contradictory roles in the new cultural globalization.